Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.

I never promised you a rose garden.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl.