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Quotes About Marriage

Dido-my solitary bridesmaid- hadn't yet married Reggie Southover, and she didn't bring him to the wedding. For the first time, I thought she was jealous of me. 'My, my, Lady Farr,' she said, checking the hang of my wedding dress. 'Do I have to curtsey?' 'Only on my birthday. And you can always call me Amory when we're alone.' 'Fuck off!
~ William Boyd
Marriage So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
~ William Carlos Williams
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life)
~ William Congreve
The Scriptures say the marital union is a relationship in which we no longer have final say about our own bodies. When we marry, we voluntarily relinquish those rights, giving that authority to our wife or husband. We take what God has entrusted to us-the temple of His Spirit-and in turn entrust it to our husband or wife. One
~ William Cutrer
During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.
~ William Dalrymple
No, no. I understand that. And I quite agree with you. But you know I've always contended that the affections could be made to combine pleasure and profit. I wouldn't have a man marry for money,--that would be rather bad,--but I don't see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man shouldn't fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor one. Some of the rich girls are very nice, and I should
~ William Dean Howells
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
~ William Faulkner
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
~ William Faulkner
like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight...
~ William Faulkner
It's a curious thing how no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.
~ William Faulkner
Garip ÅŸey, derdin ne olursa olsun erkekler sana diÅŸlerini muayene ettir der, kad?nlar da evlen der. Hayat?nda hiçbir ÅŸeyi baÅŸaramam?? bir adam kalkar sana iÅŸini nas?l yöneteceÄŸini anlat?r. Bir çift çorab? olmayan üniversite profesörlerinin on y?lda nas?l milyoner olunaca??n? ve ömründe bir koca bulamam?? bir kad?n?n aileye nas?l bak?laca??n? anlatmas?na benzer bu.
~ William Faulkner
A] generation ago ... the thing to do was to get married at twenty-one and go to work immediately, regardless of one's equipment or inclination or aptitude. But now they grow up into the convention that youth, that being under thirty years of age, is a protracted sophomore course without lectures, in which one must spend one's entire time dressed like a caricature, drinking homemade booze and pawing at the opposite sex in the intervals of being arrested by traffic policeman.
~ William Faulkner
the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.
~ William Faulkner
It's a curious thing how, no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.
~ William Faulkner
ama gene de ormanlar olacakt? onun kad?n? ve kar?s?.
~ William Faulkner
Their pursuits were by now so mysterious to one another that neither showed surprise at anything the other did or said, each, in fact, depending more and more heavily on the other for encouragement, an arrangement somewhat similar to that magic formula of modern marriage, whose parties are encouraged by disapprobation and disinterest respectively.
~ William Gaddis
her gaze had tracked the brass plaque automatically—"La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.
~ William Gibson
Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
~ William Goldman
Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
~ William Goldman
I'm not witch. I'm your wife.
~ William Goldman
Your father is dying. Drat! said the Prince, That means I shall have to get married.
~ William Goldman
Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other.
~ William Goldman
Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.
~ William Goldman
Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
~ William Goldman