Matrimony Quotes

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

— Ovid

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Matrimony is a serious thing.”

— Anne Brontë

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

— John Lyly

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

— Samuel Lover

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

— Karl Kraus

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

— Giacomo Casanova

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

— Eddie Cantor

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

— Rob Ford

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

— Henry Fielding

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

— William Shakespeare

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

— Isadora Duncan

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

— Lysa TerKeurst

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

— Elizabeth Bennett

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

— Johannes Brahms

“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for…

— Robert Galbraith

“Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— William Shakespeare

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which…

— Heinrich Heine

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged…

— Robert Breault

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing;…

— Nat C. Goodwin

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor,…

— Samuel Johnson

Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not…

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man…

— Henry Fielding

If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;…

— William Shakespeare

“I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all…

— Anne Brontë

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims…

— Anonymous

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Are you ready to go home, Catherine?” he asked. “It’s warm inside the house. I kept a fire going for you.” I…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think…

— Jane Austen

“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that…

— Robert K. Massie

I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's…

— John Dos Passos

“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman…

— Antonia Fraser

“What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said…

— Wallace Stegner

“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left…

— Charles Dickens