Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

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

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

You can't know about marriage until you try it.

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

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

We don’t want to abolish marriage, but we want marriage to be founded on what it was made for, mutual love and respect, and when there is none left or when it vanishes, so shall the marriage vanish. In short, love and respect shall be the only bonds that keep man and wife together, and when they are broken so shall the marriage end.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.