Marriage Quote by Ossie Davis Ruby Dee

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

— Mary McCarthy

“Marriage is not an incidental human construction but a creational reality. Any sexual ethic constructed without a clear connection to a theology of marriage…

— Anonymous

Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.

— Simon Gray

“despite its widespread denunciation, infidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.”

— Esther Perel

“Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to…

— Christian Cantrell

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Sex was a lot of things, but it could be analyzed in quasi-economic terms. If women were shamed into traditional marriage-only monogamy and the…

— Zeb Haradon

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous…

— Alain de Botton

“Infidelity hurts. But when we grant it a special status in the hierarchy of marital misdemeanors, we risk allowing it to overshadow the egregious…

— Esther Perel

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

— Oscar Wilde

“In other words, precisely because the ultimate goal is ... the redemption of the whole creation, our calling is to live in our bodies…

— N.T. Wright