Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton