There’s only one medicine that works on a girl, and that’s a husband.[Qu’un mari est une emplâtre qui guérit tous les maux des filles.]
There’s nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
There are successful marriages, but no blissful ones.[Il y a de bons mariages, mais il n’y en a point de délicieux.]
The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.[El problema de la vida pública es aprender a dominar el terror, el problema de la vida conyugal es aprender a dominar el tedio.]
The opinion I have of the generality of women – who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar Plum than my time, form a barrier against Matrimony which I rejoice in.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.[La femme la plus vertueuse peut être indécente à son insu.]
