Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I've never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I'd marry her.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

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

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

I shall always be a priest of love.