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"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
