Marriage Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but…

— Andre Dubus III

“Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“He wasn’t a man given to romance, but the perfect weight of this woman in his arms and the majesty of the skies above…

— Kitty French

“Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage…

— Hilary Mantel

“She did not want to be greater than her husband: what she did want was that he should acknowledge her as his equal, with…

— Maude Casey

“Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back…

— Jane Austen

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.”

— John Connolly

“I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady-because I read daily in her a proud security…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Is there," he asked with a bitter smile, "any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?” Nobody held up…

— Max Beerbohm

“He wasn't a man to give love easily. But once he did, Morgan knew she'd be his own personal queen, because that was the…

— Jennifer Probst

“For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any…

— Barbara Pym