Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
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 know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
