Anthony Trollope Quotes

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

I believe in love, and I have no trouble with commitment or loyalty; that's never been a problem for me.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

Love is hard.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.