Quotes About Commitment

My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.

Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.

Marriage will cure me, I expect. It always seems to have a very sobering effect on people.

The things that are worthwhile are usually accomplished by someone with enthusiasm and drive...

After you've fallen in love with a man and married him and got used to his ways and settled down comfortably—to go and throw it all up and start again! It seems to me madness.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.

My boy, I know what I'm talking about. Mind you, I'm not saying marriage doesn't come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can't call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It's all discipline." Luke

I speak to you for you will understand. We bought that screen with more than money--with love. For love of it, because it was beautiful and unique, we went without other things, things we needed and missed. These other Chinese pieces my husband speaks of, those we should buy with money only, we should not pay away anything of ourselves.

She is in love—heart, soul, and body—and she is not of those who love lightly and often.

Twenty minutes' work after breakfast every morning keeps the flag going to perfection. You have nothing to complain of, have you?" "Your

People who go about talking of what they are going to do don't usually do that.

liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

She existed, one might say, only in him and for him." Miss Williams paused a minute and then said quietly: "That, I think, is the justification for what she eventually did.

Poirot said gravely: "He is not very rapid, the good Battle. He gets there slowly, but he does get there in the end, madame.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

Tampoco creo, por mi parte, que esté yo dispuesto a hacer tal cosa. Tuppence y yo no hemos llegado todavía a ese extremo. Los asuntos los emprendemos y los acabamos juntos. Al decir aquello tenía fija en la mente una frase pronunciada hacia el final de la Primera Guerra Mundial: «Una aventura común». Así había sido su vida con Tuppence y así sería siempre… «Una aventura común…»

Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.

Shall I neglect you a little?' suggested Tommy. 'Take other women about to night clubs. That sort of thing.' 'Useless,' said Tuppence. 'You would only meet me there with other men. And I should know perfectly well that you didn't care for the other women, whereas you would never be quite sure that I didn't care for the other men. Women are so much more thorough.

Pilar—remember—nothing is so boring as devotion.

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...