Quotes About Marriage

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

It was the fault of the wedding-dress night, when she married the shadows and the world ended.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising. Its excesses belong to that timeless, locationless area outside history, outside geography, where fascist art is born. Nevertheless, there is no question of an aesthetics of pornography. It can never be art for art's sake. Honourably enough, it is always art with work to do.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Remember that the Lord God said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' So a man should love his wife as himself and honor her more than himself.

Do you know what I think, mother?" said Edith, who was in her usual tidy way plumping up the cushions and generally putting things straight. "No, darling," said her mother. "What is it?" "Well, it's rather difficult to explain," said Edith. "It's about George and John-Arthur. I'd like to marry them both.

Francis, who was very well off, who found the comfort of his mother's house more attractive than a house of his own, who could use his mother's car but did not think of her need of it, who enjoyed gallivanting about the country and doing theatricals with Lady Cora (for so he put it not very kindly to himself) and at the same time demanded his wife's presence, who was not taking part, though a few years earlier it was she who was the theatrical star.

Much as he loved his many daughters and his two sons, now all married, all with children, he sometimes, and especially at Christmas and during school holidays when his wife's exuberant grandmotherhood filled the Deanery with children and nurses and odd parents, echoed from his heart the cry, "Oh, for an hour of Herod.

It says there's no marriages in heaven, Mrs Powlett,' said Dorothy, giving a final polish to the pudding spoons with a piece of washleather. 'I'm ashamed of you, Dorothy,' said Mrs Powlett, 'speaking of the Bible as "it". And don't tell me it's in the Bible, Dorothy, for that is a book we were never meant to understand. Now come along and give me a hand and don't leave the shammy on the Vicar's chair.

Her husband avoided her activities as much as possible, and was very fond of her, having that affectionate reverence for his wife which is one of the advantages, from the female point of view, of the childless marriage.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.

Gringe found out and tipped off the Custodian Guards. He no more wanted his daughter to marry a Heap than you wanted Simon to marry a Gringe. The Guards stormed the chapel, sent the distraught lass home and took Simon away.

In the spring of the year that I was supposed to be married, a comet launched itself over the skies of my village. It was brighter than any comet we had ever seen, and more evil. Night after night, as it crawled across our skies spraying its cold white seeds of sorrow, we tried to decipher the fearsome messages of the stars.

And I go to bed too early. I sometimes think I should never have married because I need too much sleep.

Had she been more active, less reclusive, she would have gone out into the streets to lose herself in some sort of company, have made the pretext of buying an evening paper an opportunity to chat to the newsagent, but she rejected such stratagems, seeing them for what they were. It had been decreed that she was to be solitary, and somehow she had always known this. Once she had left her parents' house all friendships had seemed provisional; even marriage had not changed that.

Men can bury their past. An unmarried woman is her past. Whereas a wife has a social position. A spinster has none.

Owen had come along and I had fallen in love with him. I had not known then that it is not necessary to marry every man one loves. I know it now. Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that one can, and perhaps should, resist

but you've been a fool. Some women take advantage. Once they're married, and they've got a good husband, they think they can do what they like. And if they take him for granted-" she paused significantly- "they just don't bother anymore.

The company of their own sex, Edith reflected, was what drove many women into marriage.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.