Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
