Louis de Bernieres Quotes

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

I can't imagine my wife and I ever splitting up. I can't imagine a life without her.

I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it's a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.

I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'

To be honest, I was never against marrying Kunal.

If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.

Better to separate than never to marry.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

Marriage is amazing.

I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.