Marriage Quotes by Willa Cather

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

— Willa Cather

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and…

— Willa Cather

“Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully…

— Willa Cather

“I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”

— Willa Cather

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild…

— Willa Cather

“But she's the kind that won't be downed easily. She'll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all…

— Willa Cather

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless…

— Willa Cather

“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be…

— Willa Cather

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild…

— Willa Cather

“since I’ve been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have…

— Willa Cather

“Do you know, Àntonia, since I've been away, I think of you more often than of any one else in this part…

— Willa Cather

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego…

— Willa Cather