Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
