Simone Signoret Quotes

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

If the bond between a husband and his wife is strong, then I think they complete each other, and the relationship also survives longer.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.