Quotes About Marriage

On his marriage to Princess Michael, an Austrian Roman Catholic, Prince Michael gave up his place but, in reality, it was merely a gesture as there was virtually no chance of him ever becoming King as he moved further and further down the line.

which had existed for 150 years, that married couples were not permitted

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

My parents' marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn—a union formed with expectation and promise that never delivered.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Elisabeth later always referred to this situation [her engagement and marriage] with great bitterness, saying, "Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again." "The Reluctant Empress", chapter 1

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

This is why we'd gotten married in the first place: because we were lonely. I said earlier that we got divorced because Dawn wanted me to move to Charlotte and I wouldn't. But really, we got divorced because we were still lonely and Dawn thought Charlotte would change that and I thought that it wouldn't. And I wondered if this was true for other people: that they got married and divorced for the very same reason.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco.

You should make someone a wonderful husband." Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes. "I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested?

Some argue that it is the very attempt to institutionalize love that destroys it. The more love is rendered obligatory, a duty, whether religious, moral, or otherwise, the more it shrivels up and dies like a plant cultivated under the wrong conditions. "If we really love each other, why do we need a stupid piece of paper?" they ask.

Most folks think they married because they "fell in love." There's an argument to be made that "falling" in love is actually an unstable condition -- maybe even an emotional illness! Oftentimes it has to do with the way the partners are unbalanced, rather than having anything to do with love. Some of us marry our disowned or disused personality parts and call it "falling in love.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

There was something inhuman about being dutiful workaholics, something that wrecked marriages, shattered families, and made a man and woman shrivel up inside. It was going to kill them both someday. Without his wife and his child, hinges had popped loose in Van's soul. He could feel that something quiet but vital to his humanity was slowly going down the shredder.

My IQ? No. I can't read," she said proudly. "But I'm Rep One, the majority whip in the House. And I'm married to Senator One.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.