Quotes About Commitment

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry—at least not yet.

The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face. 'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon. 'I will,' said Gabriel. And she smiled on him again.

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.

Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.

Because nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! … She would have laid down her life for 'ee. I could do no more.

I will help to my last breath the woman I have loved so dearly.

Very well," said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.

It depends entirely upon what is meant by being truly great. But the long and the short of the matter is, that men must stick to a thing if they want to succeed in it—not giving way to over-much admiration for the flowers they see growing in other people's borders; which I am afraid has been my case.' He looked into the far distance and paused.

There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity—even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.

I have danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile and many a long day.

Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage

Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

What I am in worldly estate, she is. What I become, she must become. What I cannot be, she cannot be. And shall I ever neglect her, or hurt her, or even forget to consider her? God forbid such a crime!

the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do.