For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
Marriage is a matter of more worth than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
There is an art to “catching a husband”: “keeping” him is a profession.
There are some who take husbands only to emancipate themselves from the restraint of their parents.[Il y en a d’aucunes qui prennent des maris seulement pour se tirer de la contrainte de leurs parents.]
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.[El problema del matrimonio es que se acaba todas las noches después de hacer el amor, y hay que volver a reconstruirlo todas las mañanas antes del desayuno.]
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Matrimony, Agnes, is no joke. The position of a wife calls for strict duties.[Le mariage, Agnès, n’est pas un badinage: A d’austères devoirs le rang de femme engage.]
Many short follies – that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.[Recuerda siempre que lo más importante de un buen matrimonio no es la felicidad sino la estabilidad.]
A marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
Women who don’t marry wither up — they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don’t even know that they’re withering.
