Wedlock Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
— William Rehnquist
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
— Marquis de Sade
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Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.
— Ernest Jarrold
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A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
— Charles Simmons
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
— Evan Esar
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Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as…
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
— Anatole Broyard
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Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
— C.S. Lewis
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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage…
— Armstrong Williams
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring…
— Lucretius
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle;…
— Mark Driscoll
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Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions…
— Mick LaSalle
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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because…
— Hosea Ballou
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Wedlock is a padlock.
— John Ray
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not…
— Joe Klein
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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Who Wrote These Wedlock Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 38 Wedlock Quotes, led by these top contributors: