Marriage Quote by Jonathan Swift

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Besides, what do I know about being a wife? There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.”

— C.J. Redwine

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Young lord, one marries only once in life and one does not do so lightly.”

— Shin Jae

“Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d…

— Renee Ahdieh

“There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.”

— Georgette Heyer

“My wife had learned to give in to what someone older, stronger, and meaner wanted.”

— Deborah Harkness

“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like…

— Haruki Murakami

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“That is just what I should like to marry. A thoroughly sensible wife would reduce me to a condition of absolute idiocy in less…

— Oscar Wilde