Marriage Quotes

"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?" ~ Man And Superman by George Bernard Shaw "A marriage without love is dishonour." ~ Sandra Belloni by George Meredith She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "To be sure, a step-mother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!" ~ Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell "Being a husband is a whole-time job. That's why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it." ~ The Title by Arnold Bennett In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them in full disaster ere they knew. ~ Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells 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. ~ The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "By love I mean the forgetfulness of self. Unions are frequent in which only the sexual instincts, or the remembrance of self, are roused---" ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy "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." ~ What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens