"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"
- Alfred de Musset
"We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity."
- The School of Life
"The Open Road goes to the used-car lot."
- Louis Simpson
"Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career—no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature thei..."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?"
- John Keats 1795-1821
"For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive."
"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."
- Leni Riefenstahl
"History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in."
- Pietros Maneos
"No, no, I will not live among the wild scenes of nature, the enemy of all that lives. I will seek the towns—Rome, the capital of the world, the crown of man's achievements. Among its storied streets, ..."
"When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, ..."