Quotes About Matrimony

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

Matrimonial ambition is such an honourable thing.

Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled, savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can't handle their liquor.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.

The matrimony of morality and laws is the ark of Western civilization. What we are witnessing is the tragic divorce of civility and humanity that results from discord between the two.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Marriage is a wonderful thing.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Wedlock is a narrow business.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

Aveva letto innumerevoli storie romantiche nella sua vita e aveva sognato l'amore eterno; ma non aveva mai immaginato che un semplice e vecchio materasso matrimoniale potesse diventare un mondo a sé stante, un'oasi".

My dear child," the priest inserted, "it's not often one of these"--he threw a meaningful glance at Hunter--" gentlemen offers to make an honorable woman of a captive. Wouldn't it be wise to accept?" "I'm in no need of matrimony, Father. I still have my honor.

I'm in no need of matrimony, Father. I still have my honor." Hunter jerked her to his side and, in an ominously even voice, said, "Your honor will soon go the way of the wind, Blue Eyes. You made a God promise. You are my woman! Now I say you will be my wife!

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Not to prolong a mystery that must already oppress the reader, Mr. Bilkins's cook had, after the manner of her kind, stolen out of the premises before the family were up, and got herself married—surreptitiously and artfully married, as if matrimony were an indictable offence.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.