Marriage 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

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

— Jodi Picoult

“He had swept her off her feet then, and was all charm and charisma but then the magic slowly diminished and finally died due…

— Neena H. Brar

“So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side…

— Diane Setterfield

“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 advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.”

— William Browning Spencer

“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company of another…

— Robert Goolrick

“A marriage was like a delicate flower. It wasn’t enough to just plant it – you had to do something every day to nourish…

— Onyih Odunze

“The long matrimonial haul was accomplished in cycles. One cycle of bad breath, one cycle of renewed desire, a third cycle of breakdown and…

— Joshua Ferris

“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self…

— Emma Straub

“A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man’s idea of what…

— Christina Stead

“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which…

— Oscar Wilde