When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Quotations
Marriage
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
