Quotes About Marriage

We think, without fear of being deceived, that married people who have lived twenty years together may sleep in peace without fear of having their love trespassed upon or of incurring the scandal of a lawsuit for criminal conversation.

The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.

The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.

What an admirable maneuver it would be to make a wife dance, and to feed her on vegetables!

Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil.

By remaining unmarried, a creature of the female sex becomes void of meaning; selfish and cold, she creates repulsion.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

If a man never grew old, I would never wish him to have a wife!

In married life, the moment when two hearts come to understand each other is sudden as a flash of lightning, and never returns, when once it is passed.

Your wife ought to drink water, lightly tinged with a Burgundy wine agreeable to her taste, but destitute of any tonic properties; every other kind of wine would be bad for her. Never allow her to drink water alone; if you do, you are lost...

Thoughts of adultery do not take possession of the heart of a married woman all at once, like a shot from a pistol.

Most men have no other views in marrying, than reproduction, property or children; but neither reproduction nor property nor children constitutes happiness. The command, "Increase and multiply," does not imply love. To ask of a young girl whom we have seen fourteen times in fifteen days, to give you love in the name of law, the king and justice, is an absurdity worthy of the majority of the predestined.

A husband should never let his wife visit her mother unattended.

It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.

A husband never loses anything by appearing to believe in the fidelity of his wife, by preserving an air of patience and by keeping silence. Silence especially troubles a woman amazingly.

Happiness in marriage results in perfect union of soul between a married pair. Hence it follows that in order to be happy a man must feel himself bound by certain rules of honor and delicacy. After having enjoyed the benefit of the social law which consecrates the natural craving, he must obey also the secret laws of nature by which sentiments unfold themselves. If he stakes his happiness on being himself loved, he must himself love sincerely: nothing can resist a genuine passion.

A married woman, then, in France presents the spectacle of a queen out at service, of a slave, at once free and a prisoner.

A wife is to her husband just what her husband has made her.

A good mind protects like a divinity; disenchantment is as keen-sighted as a surgeon; experience as foreseeing as a mother. Those three qualities are the cardinal virtues of a safe marriage.

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.

The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.

There are husbands, tall and of superior intellect, whose wives have lovers who are ugly, short, or stupid.

A husband ought never to be the first to go to sleep and the last to awaken.

The man who enters his wife's dressing-room is either a philosopher or an imbecile.