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"
Quotations
Marriage
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
