Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
