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| "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." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary |  |
| "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "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?" | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "Society is built on marriage," came from between her father's close lips; "marriage and its consequences." | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." | Wilkie Collins | No Name | |
| "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." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| 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. | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady | |
| " . . . 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." | Henry Fielding | Amelia | |
| "So you think it necessary, then," said the doctor, "that there should be one fool at least in every married couple." | Henry Fielding | Amelia | |
| " . . . rather courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." | William Congreve | The Old Bachelor | |
| "Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke." | James M. Barrie | What Every Woman Knows | |
| "By love I mean the forgetfulness of self. Unions are frequent in which only the sexual instincts, or the remembrance of self, are roused---" | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | |
| The old couple had come round to that tragic imitation of the dawn of life when husband and wife, having lost or scattered all those who were their intimates, find themselves face to face and alone once more, their work done, and the end nearing fast. Those who have reached that stage in sweetness and love, who can change their winter into a gentle, Indian summer, have come as victors through the ordeal of life. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Brown Hand | |
| "The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error." | George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman | |
| "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." | George Bernard Shaw | The Philanderer | |
| "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." | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband | |
| "Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?" | George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman | |
| "A marriage without love is dishonour." | George Meredith | Sandra Belloni | |
| She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was. | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
| "To be sure, a step-mother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!" | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | |
