Matrimony Quotes - Page 2

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil - improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

"Are you a young lady?"

"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes - I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Well married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth - all woman!

Bride, n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.