Marriage Quotes

When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spri...

Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the prom...

The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - re...

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

[The Devil and his angels] have... persuad[ed]... humans that a curious, and usually short-lived, ex...

The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcende...

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and witho...

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with...

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marria...

Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister....

Your place is with me,” Jem said. “It always will be.”“What do you mean?”He flushed, the color dark ...

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other...

Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have h...

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen wate...

I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box...

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...

Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed ...

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qua...

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable a...

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, tho...

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about accepta...

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from your...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...

But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the...

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...

And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf...

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in...

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have...

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she ...

Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls t...

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what...

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that'...

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want...

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because...

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...

I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go ...

We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by m...

He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a ...

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bir...

Do you realize that you've been married to me for just about half of your entire life?"Her head came...

Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot...

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by ma...

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of...

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she shou...

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-ag...

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both...

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener ...

The point is, what sort of a time can a man give a woman? Can he give her a damn good time, or can't...

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have ...

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us...

I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads starin...

When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aq...

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, a...

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean yo...

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with som...

I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very mu...

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and g...

She represents the country Alamonia.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of ...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a di...

Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proc...

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe...

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye ...

He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and...

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living h...

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total...

Over the years I have written many a letter for the wedding of one of the brothers and preached many...

As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor,...

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, a...

It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love...

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have ...

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least ...

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is ob...

Then Wanda proposed a health. "Health to abandoned wives!" she said. "Well now," I said. "'Abandoned...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...