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"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
