Quotes About Marriage

I prayed that all might be well between me and Hartley, that somehow that lifelong faithful remembering, what I now thought of as my mystical marriage, might not be lost or wasted, but somehow come to good!

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.

And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage, gushed blood.

Adelaide had anticipated pains and difficulties in her married life, and her anticipations were fulfilled.

Society conspires to make a newly wed couple feel virtuous. Marriage is a symbol of goodness, though it is only a symbol.

She had not even framed the idea of happiness in connection with her marriage

Bradley, my marriage is over. I think my life is probably over. What a poor affair it has been.

Actually, said Gildas, every marriage is an irreversible mistake. That's the secret which they all keep.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

George Weston, after all was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.

The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.

Pero ella había muerto. Su matrimonio sólo duró cinco años; y después comprendió que sólo podría vivir contra aquel vago y temible enemigo que le privaba de su dignidad de hombre al controlar su destino, que convertía la vida en una triste lucha contra un fin predestinado, que hacía de todo el universo un juego de ajedrez odioso y mortal.

Después de 10 años de matrimonio era todavía lo suficientemente estúpido como para seguir enamorado de ella.

Did they know that you had a robot husband?" "I had a husband. Don't call him a robot husband. There is no such expression.

The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow

All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and the husband fate had dealt her

If I have a perfect lover waiting for me in California, why would I want an imperfect husband?" I argued. "Lovers don't last; a husband is a captive prey," she replied.

An invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. In response to Clara's imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seigniorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces...the big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.

He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love.