Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“If you were a dear, good little wife, Janet,’ had said Lymond, ‘you’d fall into a mortal decline that day, or at least hide…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Scott is gone. I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our first unhappy…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“The wedding ended, hurriedly, on a surge of masculine bonhomie and relief. Five minutes later, followed by the red-eyed glares of their womenfolk, Buccleuch…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul there's little…

— André Aciman

“likes to see a bit o’ money into the bargain – there’s more to marriage, as they say, than four bare legs in a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Scotties are smelly, even the best of them. You will recall how my Aunt Agatha’s McIntosh niffed to heaven while enjoying my hospitality. I…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the…

— Alan Brennert

“Janet did not believe it was feasible to be single; to Janet a bachelor eked out his living on the margins of society, orbiting…

— Lydia Millet

“And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: “Bed, Wife.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit.”

— Zadie Smith

“She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly…

— Margaret Rome

“But I must say, it's a lonely business fucking someone you no longer love. Especially a husband. Tough, funny, vulgar, cynical, it was a…

— Peter Evans