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"
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
