Patrick Marber Quotes

I never fall in love.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

I would recommend getting married young. That way you don't have all the baggage.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

A first love always occupies a special place.

I fall in love very easily.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.