There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
