Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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"
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
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
