There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
