Marriage Quotes

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.

We ought to believe in marriage as we believe in the immortality of the soul.[Il faut croire au mariage comme à l’immortalité de l’âme.]

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 married couple who intend to love each other during their whole life have no notion of a honeymoon; for them it has no existence, or rather its existence is perennial; they are like the immortals who do not understand death.[Les époux destinés à s’aimer pendant toute leur vie ne conçoivent pas la Lune de Miel ; pour eux, elle n’existe pas, ou plutôt elle existe toujours: ils sont comme ces immortels qui ne comprenaient pas la mort.]

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.[Viele kurze Thorheiten – das heisst bei euch Liebe. Und eure Ehe macht vielen kurzer Thorheiten ein Ende, als Eine lange Dummheit.]

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.]