Candor Quote by Muriel Spark

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the…

— Rebecca West

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

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer…

— Michael Chabon

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about…

— Aasif Mandvi

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

— Carla Bruni

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer…

— Germaine Greer

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

— Elbert Hubbard

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing…

— Margaret Mead

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche