Agatha Christie Quotes

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

Love me less, but love me for a long time

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

I think when you get married, it should be forever. Even though I did get married once and it was annulled. I don't know. For myself, I just want to have kids by the same person and stay with the same person.

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.