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"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"
