Romance and novel paint beauty in colours more charming than Nature, and describe a happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Goldsmith.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. I. Disraeli.
Romance is the poetry of literature. Mme. Necker.
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect.... The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the common-places of five. Willmott.
Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is 5 always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but is poetry in memory. G. W. Curtis.
Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque—All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tac.
Rome (room) indeed, and room enough, / When there is in it but one only man. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Rome n'est plus dans Rome; elle est toute où je suis—Rome is no longer in Rome; it is all where I am. Corn.
Rome was not built in one day. Heywood.
Root away / The noisome weeds, which without 10 profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. Rich. II., iii. 4.