Marriage Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II”

— William Shakespeare

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

— William Shakespeare

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

— William Shakespeare

A young man married is a man that's marred.

— William Shakespeare

Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

— William Shakespeare

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

— William Shakespeare

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour,…

— William Shakespeare

You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

— William Shakespeare

“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

— William Shakespeare

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

— William Shakespeare

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

— William Shakespeare

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

— William Shakespeare

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

— William Shakespeare

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with…

— 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

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is…

— William Shakespeare

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud…

— William Shakespeare

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when…

— William Shakespeare

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not…

— William Shakespeare

Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,…

— William Shakespeare

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

— William Shakespeare

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

— William Shakespeare

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.

— William Shakespeare

Many good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

— William Shakespeare

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

— William Shakespeare

No worse a husband than the best of men.

— William Shakespeare

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a…

— William Shakespeare

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

— William Shakespeare

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

— William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

— William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

— William Shakespeare

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

— William Shakespeare

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

— William Shakespeare