Top 40 Ever After Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ever After Quotes from famous people such as Harriet Walter, Cory Monteith, Roxane Gay, Hakan Nesser, Moira Kelly, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Romance is about investing in the future – with older people, there is less time for happy ever after.
Harriet Walter
I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That’s important to me.
Cory Monteith
Throughout any given season of ‘The Bachelor,’ the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing – along with several other women, often inebriated – the promise of happily ever after.
Roxane Gay
It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
Hakan Nesser
I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.
Moira Kelly
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we’ve heard in fairy tales.
Yakov Smirnoff
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Mercedes McCambridge
I’ve already had my happily ever after.
Terri Irwin
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
Frank Rich
Not many people get that ‘happily ever after’ they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
Abby Johnson
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
Piper Laurie
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.
Roxane Gay
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus
After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and ‘live happily ever after.’
Mohamed El-Erian
To me, Steve was my Prince Charming. He was my happily ever after, and we got that. We got 14 years of marriage; we had the best, most fantastic, adventurous, wonderful life that you could imagine. And I was very happy with that.
Terri Irwin
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. ‘Into the Woods’ follows that template, then asks, ‘What happens after Happy Ever After?’
Richard Corliss
I don’t believe in ‘happy ever after’ at all as a concept.
Andrew Haigh
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
Steven Wright
When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after’ with an actual man!
Lynda Barry
Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with ‘happily ever after,’ leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed… I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.
Tom Golisano
A peace agreement isn’t like a fairy story. You don’t live happily ever after.
Jonathan Powell
It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, ‘Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after’ and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it’s not all ‘happily ever after.’ I like all that old school, bloody, ‘Brothers Grimm’ sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.
Erin Morgenstern
Our story is a ‘once upon a time’, but it’s not a ‘happy ever after’.
Rupert Sanders
Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.
Nadya Suleman
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don’t the stories lack complexity? Don’t the readers get bored?
Sarah MacLean
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you’re young but eventually it loses its meaning because it’s just not true.
Marc Webb
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can’t break.
Patrick McGoohan
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte
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It’s true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write ‘And they lived happily ever after’ before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
Teresa Medeiros
My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
Chrissy Teigen
I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
Jimmy Buffett
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.
Amrita Singh
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn’t all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
Maysoon Zayid
I don’t write the kind of ‘happily ever after’ that romance readers enjoy.
Charlaine Harris
I’m building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like ‘happily ever after,’ but I don’t think that’s me.
Adam Silvera
I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business – a tough business.
Monica Seles