Marriage Quote by Loretta Chase

“Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a…

— Lord Byron

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“I was more’n forty by then,” said Miles sadly. “I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Something I did not know at twenty,” said Nikys slowly, “that I do know at thirty, is that when a woman marries a man,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“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

“She was only forty-seven according to the file his aide had put together for him, but had gone totally gray by thirty-two. That early…

— Nalini Singh

“Some day the marriageable age for women will be advanced from twenty to thirty, and the old maid line will be changed from thirty…

— Edna Ferber

“My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I'm thirty-four." "You don't look thirty-four." "That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to…

— Jennifer Crusie

“His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband—say, forty—with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.”

— Dashiell Hammett

“As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was…

— George Orwell

“When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to…

— Amy Hill Hearth