A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

And I would have now love is over an end to all an end I cannot having been your lover stoop to become your friend

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.