Charles Dickens Quotes

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.

I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I think my generation is extremely cynical about love.

I'm married to the only woman I've loved, and I'm happy.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

I am in love, and he's the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the one, too. Frankly, I'm so much into the idea of being in love that anyone out of about 3 million could be the one. But no, this one now is definitely the one, the very one.

When I say this, I don't mean that if you can love more people you will not go into marriage. As far as I see, a person who can love more will not go into marriage only for love. He will go into marriage for deeper things. Please understand me: if a person loves many people, then there is no reason to marry someone only because of love - because he can love many people without marriage, so there is no reason.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.

I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

I have learned that I am a one-woman man.

I want to find a man and have a family.