Joanna Trollope Quotes

We live too long for one marriage.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

I have been blessed being married to the same woman for 61 years. I honestly believe that if I retired, we may not make it to 62.

I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

I have no time to think about a second marriage at all.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.