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
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
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"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
