marriage Quotes

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:women men marriage

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

topic:love marriage

“On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

topic:love marriage

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:happiness marriage

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:marriage risk

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

topic:marriage youth age

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:marriage pleasure

“By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

topic:marriage right

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:women marriage slavery

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