Marriage Quotes

"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?" ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins "Society is built on marriage," came from between her father's close lips; "marriage and its consequences." ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy "I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up." ~ The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his--attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James "When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding "So you think it necessary, then," said the doctor, "that there should be one fool at least in every married couple." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding "His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding "Rather courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve "Married in haste, we may repent at leisure." ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve