Matrimony Quotes

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleas...

Some women marry houses.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I di...

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat...

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying a...

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblan...

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of g...

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.