Alternatives Quote by John Bayley

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

— Sydney J. Harris

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

— Fanny Kemble

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

— Harriet Lerner

The world's happiest couples never have the same nature. They just have the best understanding of their differences!

— Bernajoy Vaal

“As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund,…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

— Joseph Addison

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is…

— Wallis Simpson

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition,…

— Ursula Hegi

The happiest couples never have the same character. they have the best understanding of their differences …

— Anonymous

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant…

— GK Chesterton

The happiest people do not live with a certain set of circumstances, but rather with a certain set of attitudes

— Suman Rai

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

— Rahul Dev