There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
