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"
Quotations
Marriage
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
