Dinner Quote by Oscar Wilde

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

— Elinor Glyn

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not…

— Morton Hunt

“The other side of mental blanketing - the buffing and puffing up of marriage to keep it seeming shiny and magical - is up…

— Bella DePaulo

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and…

— Stephanie Coontz

In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying…

— Stephanie Coontz

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to…

— Samuel Adams

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

— Gary Bauer

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit…

— Samuel Johnson

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert