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Marriage Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
- Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
- Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
- It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
- Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
- Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
- Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
- Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
- Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one…
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human…
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
- Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
- There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
- How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people…
- The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being…
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