Ruth Rendell Quotes

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 know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

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.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

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 secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

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.

I love being married.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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.