The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
