Jane Austen Quotes

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I think, as human beings, we try to hide our flaws and try to present this perfect person, this person we wish we were, to our spouse when that causes so many troubles.

My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

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

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

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 have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.