Denise Van Outen Quotes

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. There's a lot of men out there who do.

I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

Providing - that's not love. Being there - that's more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They're crying out for attention; they're hurting for love. I'm not being judgmental - I'm just making an observation. They're crying out for the love that maybe they didn't get at home, and they got everything.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

Men feel safe and more open when they know that the woman they're talking to approves of their passion for a particular band/book/cereal.

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.

Well, well,” he said. “Five days a week isn’t enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?

I love all of you men, but you women even more!

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.