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Quotes About Marriage

Good heavens!  Is marriage so demoralizing as that? Lane.  I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir.  I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.  I have only been married once.  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon.
~ Oscar Wilde
Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea
~ Oscar Wilde
La bigamia è avere una moglie di troppo. La monogamia lo stesso.
~ Oscar Wilde
But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
~ Oscar Wilde
Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!
~ Ovid
And now, as she died for the second time, she never complained that her husband had failed her - what could she complain of, except that he'd loved her?
~ Ovid
Ah, me, she sighed. If marriage were as simple as love!
~ Owen Wister
She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says Guess who!
~ p g wodehouse
He was stoutly opposed to the idea of marrying anyone; but if, as happens to the best of us, he ever were compelled to perform the wedding glide, he had always hoped it would be with some lady golf champion who would help him with his putting, and thus, by bringing his handicap down a notch or two, enable him to save something from the wreck, so to speak.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Well, anyway, we walked around for a while, looking at the animals, and suddenly he asked me to marry him outside the cage of the Siberian yak. No sir, exclaimed Sigsbee H with a sudden strange firmness, the indulgent father who for once in his life asserts himself. When you get married, you'll get married in St Thomas's like any other nice girl.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I was thinking,' she said. 'About those wives of yours.' 'What about them?' 'Mrs. Llewellyn must be the fourth.' 'Fifth. You're overlooking Bernadine Friganza.' 'It seems rather a lot.' 'That's Hollywood. You sort of drift into it. There's nothing much to do after office hours, so you go out and get married.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.
~ P.C. Cast
Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.
~ P.C. Cast
No sabía qué pensar de aquel hombre caballo con quien debía permanecer casada durante un año. Era obvio que me interesaba. Después de todo, no había conocido nunca a nadie como él. Admitamos que no hay muchos centauros corriendo por Oklahoma, al menos por Tulsa. Una no podía saber lo que pasaba en el interior del Estado. P.C. Cast, En el lugar de la diosa
~ P.C. Cast
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll understand how I felt when Clarence burst on me. You know the feeling. First of all, when you hear about the marriage, you say to yourself, I wonder what he's like. Then you meet him, and think, There must be some mistake. She can't have preferred this to me!
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves, I'm engaged. I hope you will be very happy, sir. Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Didn't Frankenstein get married? Did he? said Eggy. I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going to support even a mentally afflicted wife on nothing a year beat me. Old Bittlesham was bound to knock off his allowance if he did anything of the sort and, with a fellow like young Bingo, if you knocked off his allowance, you might just as well hit him on the head with an axe and make a clean job of it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples who find life grey, and can't stick each other at any price.
~ P.G. Wodehouse