If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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"
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
