Quotes About Commitment

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

Trust is the backbone of a relationship. Without trust the building of relationship can't stand.

If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.

Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.

The bed is the whole of marriage.

The interest of a husband as much as his honor forbids him to indulge a pleasure which he has not had the skill to make his wife desire.

A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.

A man must not flatter himself that he knows his wife, and is making her happy unless he sees her often at his knees.

An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.

We think, without fear of being deceived, that married people who have lived twenty years together may sleep in peace without fear of having their love trespassed upon or of incurring the scandal of a lawsuit for criminal conversation.

The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.

Then, let every one question his conscience on this point, and search his memory if he has ever met a man who confined himself to the love of one woman only!

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Thoughts of adultery do not take possession of the heart of a married woman all at once, like a shot from a pistol.

Let the man whom I deign to love beware how he thinks of anything but loving me!

It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.

It is as absurd to deny that it is possible for a man always to love the same woman, as it would be to affirm that some famous musician needed several violins in order to execute a piece of music or compose a charming melody.

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.

A husband ought never to be the first to go to sleep and the last to awaken.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

Marriage is a matter concerning the whole of life, whilst love aims only at pleasure. On the other hand, marriage will remain when pleasures have vanished, and it is the source of interests far more precious than those of the man and woman entering on the alliance.

Before a woman gives herself entirely up to her lover, she ought to consider well what his love has to offer her. The gift of her esteem and confidence should necessarily precede that of her heart.