Quotes About Commitment

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

He is all my art to me now.

Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public temptation. ... Chausuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chausuble: And often, I´ve been told, not even to her.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.

As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

My own one, I have never loved anyone in the world but you.

I would give my soul for that!

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements.  They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.