marriage Quotes

“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

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“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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