Appetite Quote by Edith Wharton

“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

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

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather…

— Edith Wharton

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the…

— Rebecca West

“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

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His…

— H. L. Mencken

“Before, she’d envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control…

— Glynnis Campbell

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of…

— Augusten Burroughs

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

“Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time”

— Jodi Picoult

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that…

— Carolyn Heilbrun