Quotes about Commitment

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.

All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.