Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
