Quotes About Marriage

really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements.  They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.

in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with.  Girls don't think it right.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say.

I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.

very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The family as subversive of true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." Yes, President, I agree completely with Article 5. A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married.

An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

But I didn't say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have a distinct remembrance of being married, but I have no recollection at all of being engaged. I am inclined to think that I never was engaged.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry languidly.

Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.