Jean Kerr Quotes

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.

When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

I'm 29 years old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.

I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'

There was a time when I was willing to marry any cute boy that looked at me.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.