Ben Nicholson Quotes

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

I just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your life because you spent all of it acting, but I think gosh, I've never been to China, I've never been to Japan. I've never been to Yellowstone Park.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

A first love always occupies a special place.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.