Emily Mortimer Quotes

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

Marriage is wonderful.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

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 like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

I want a man in my life, not in my house.