Hugh Grant Quotes

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?

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 believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to.

In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

There's a lot to be said about stability. So many people don't get married nowadays - you see it less and less - but it's a shame if you don't ever have that experience of sharing something with someone else. It's a real shame.

I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?