Anthony Trollope Quotes

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being. But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together.

I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

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

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.

I am marrying her because I love her.