Marriage Quote by Edith Wharton

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be…

— Howard Jacobson

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And when he…

— Ted Gup

“The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers…

— Victor Hugo

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his child, and…

— Robert Penn Warren

“For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the…

— Evette Davis

“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a…

— Charles Dickens

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good woman. I…

— Erica Jong

“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final…

— Andre Dubus