You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author advises keeping idealism in romance separate from financial pragmatism.
- In plain terms
- Be romantic about love but practical about money.
- What can you take from it?
- Financial decisions need realism over romance.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should money matter in love?
- How do you balance love and finance?
Another view
It assumes money and love can always be separated cleanly.
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