David Walliams Quotes

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

Variety is the spice of love.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.

You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.

I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that's when you really develop a relationship.