Friendship Quote by Edith Wharton

“...when "such things happened" it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. All the elderly ladies whom Archer…

— Edith Wharton

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past.…

— Edith Wharton

“As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend,…

— Alexander Dumas

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“he could not bear that a woman, and his wife at that, should not bow before him — this would have degraded him. He…

— Maxim Gorky

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”

— T.C. Boyle

“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together…

— Edith Wharton

“Marriage was a trap. The moment the man said the word “I do” at the altar, he surrendered his freedom. He was no longer…

— Ilona Andrews

“...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success in life…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer