Betty Wright Quotes

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

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?

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

All romances end at marriage.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.