Marriage Affair Quotes

#1. We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Ingmar Bergman

#2. know what relationship you're getting with Mourinho: a full-on, passionate, whirlwind affair with some unforgettable nights but absolutely no chance of a lasting marriage. One caveat though: Mourinho's always wanted this job.

Andy Mitten

#3. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#4. It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

Jane Wagner

#5. Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#6. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.

Agatha Christie

#7. When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

John M. Gottman

#8. There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Tennessee Williams

#9. He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

C.J. English

#10. A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

Daphne Guinness

#11. She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.

Martha Lemasters

#13. If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.

Andrew Solomon

#14. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

#15. In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman's marriage, coincided with Woolf 's most productive years as a writer.

Jane Goldman

#16. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The

Charles Dickens

#17. We made love. Extraordinary love.

C.J. English

#18. Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

Thomas Szasz

#19. A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.

Shirley Boone

#20. A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Erica Jong

#21. An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

#22. Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.

Hermione Lee

#23. There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

#24. Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him.
He didn't like it. Not at all.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#25. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

#26. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#27. I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.

Romulus Linney

#28. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell

#29. What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from an affair, because a marriage of three is better than a woman alone.

Naomi Wood

#30. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

#31. Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

Irene Nemirovsky

#32. You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.

Orna Ross

#33. If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Shelley Long

#34. When women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.

Elif Shafak

#35. Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Joseph Campbell

#36. Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Mignon McLaughlin

#37. When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Amos Oz