Marriage Quotes by William Shakespeare

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

— William Shakespeare

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

— William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

— William Shakespeare

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

— William Shakespeare

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

— William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

— William Shakespeare

This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.

— William Shakespeare

Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

— William Shakespeare

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

— William Shakespeare

“Where is your husband? LADY MACDUFF: I hope, in no place so unsanctified Where such as thou mayst find him.”

— William Shakespeare

“I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.”

— William Shakespeare

“my wife's liver Infected as her life, she would not live The running of one glass.”

— William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the…

— William Shakespeare

You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

— William Shakespeare

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to…

— William Shakespeare

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

— William Shakespeare

“If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when…

— William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be…

— William Shakespeare

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned…

— William Shakespeare

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but…

— William Shakespeare

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead…

— William Shakespeare

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore…

— William Shakespeare

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny…

— William Shakespeare

Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks…

— William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance…

— William Shakespeare

“Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot…

— William Shakespeare

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks…

— William Shakespeare

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like…

— William Shakespeare

“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to…

— William Shakespeare

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or…

— William Shakespeare

“My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand The grandchild to her blood.…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it…

— William Shakespeare

“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance;…

— William Shakespeare

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

— William Shakespeare

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

— William Shakespeare

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

— William Shakespeare

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

— william shakespeare

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

— William Shakespeare