Burt Lancaster Quotes

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in.

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.