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"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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"
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"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
