Britt Ekland Quotes

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

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.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

I think I'm more demanding than any wife.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

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

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

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

In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

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.

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

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.

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

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.