Marriage Quotes

Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgment of things he could not gracefully utter. ~ A Lost Lady by Willa Cather Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope "Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married," she said. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. " ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "A young lady can't be too careful who she marries." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "Marriage is not a mere question of sentiment. It has to wear. It has to last. It must have a solid and dependable foundation, to stand the test and strain of daily life together." ~ The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay "The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error." ~ Man And Superman by George Bernard Shaw "You might have married him not because you loved him, but because you didn't love anybody else. When one is young, one marries out of mere curiosity, just to see what it's like." ~ The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw "But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde