Top Matrimony Quotes

If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre...

Matrimony Definition

(n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

(n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married wo...

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the...

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y...

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you.She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice be...

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

The ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?Are you a young lady?I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I wil...

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.