Marriage Quote by Edith Wharton

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material…

— Edith Wharton

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

— T.C. Boyle

“Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it…

— Edith Wharton

“And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me,…

— Jane Austen

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“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

“And although he had never thought a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions—or at least…

— Melanie Dickerson

“As far as I could tell his problems with his wife were pretty typical, they’d run out of things to say to one another.…

— Chassis Albuquerque

“He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married…

— R.K. Narayan

“He had grown accustomed to his wife by this time, and regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against long inconsequential…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton