Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

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

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

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

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

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Marriage is a school of learning.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Marriage is hard work, period.

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.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

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

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.