Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.[Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui dévore tout: l’habitude.]
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness.
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence. [Брак – это нравственная смерть всякой гордой души, всякой независимости.]
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Marriage is like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
