Blessed Quote by Arthur Frederick Saunders

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

— William Congreve

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

— Sandra Dallas

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

Marriage is the antidote to the poison of romance and passion

— William Mocca

“they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous calvary of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“THEY pass’d the Time of their Journey in as much Happiness as the most luxurious Gratification of wild Desires could make them; and when…

— Eliza Haywood

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken…

— George Eliot

MARRIAGE, The dawn of romance and the commencement of history;

— Nikhil Saluja

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They…

— Haruki Murakami

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather…

— Edith Wharton

All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side…

— Diane Setterfield