Leslie Jones Quotes

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

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

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

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.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

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.

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

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

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.