Quentin Crisp Quotes

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

I think I couldn't balance my marriage and my mother's deteriorating health. I realized it was unfair to my husband to have my divided attention. I understood he deserved better and should go for that. He deserved the attention of a partner, not another headache, and I didn't want to share my time with anyone else but my mother.

When it comes to relationship compromise, it's a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.

We have this rule in our marriage, there's no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.

For me sometimes you have to accept that people can not always be what you want them to be.

My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.

If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.