Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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 man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
