Marriage Quote by Joseph J. Ellis

“I saw that he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; I felt he…

— Charlotte Brontë

“For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age. And to…

— Alyssa Urbano

“She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not to be afraid of an…

— Lorrie Moore

“As far as I could tell his problems with his wife were pretty typical, they’d run out of things to say to one another.…

— Chassis Albuquerque

“Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her, and she…

— Betty Smith

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many…

— Jane Green

“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun…

— Karen Chance

“she imagined what it would be like to live with somebody who had secrets. Instead of a comfortable atmosphere of trust there would be…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be…

— Steve Maraboli

“And although he had never thought a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions—or at least…

— Melanie Dickerson

“She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.”

— Margaret Way