Marriage Quotes

Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like ...

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very ...

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their ha...

A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet ...

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on ...

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crock...

Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terri...

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together ...

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends...

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not s...

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If ...

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, a...

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...

My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a trag...

She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for...

There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; ...

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

No man is boss in his own home but he can make up for it by making a dog play dead.

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance how...

To make one, there must be two.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wast...

I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are...

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying wome...

Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relatio...

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue...

The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones f...

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things...

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...

It is to be broken. It is to betorn open. It is not to bereached and come to rest inever. I turn aga...

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relatio...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, i...

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...

mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I ...

Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I...

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settl...

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of ho...

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffer...

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motion...

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long...

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting m...

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

... I regularly frequent St. George';s, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and thou...

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degre...

Elizabeth was so sweet this afternoon trying to show P.B. his sitting room. He became absorbed in so...

After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, underst...

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one b...

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On th...

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie ...

Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came w...

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

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

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronounce...

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll becom...

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word sugge...

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapp...

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but...

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is...

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in...

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a ...

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And...

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appre...

Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who the...

In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the alter, a couple would speak thu...

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our har...

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn...

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in t...

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I g...

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would...

I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating wit...

He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs....

He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, in...

If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways ...

She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and we...