Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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
