If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
