Marriage Quote by Philippa Gregory

“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.”

— E. M. Forster

“I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.”

— Lynn Austin

“I believe he’s a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a…

— Iris Johansen

“For there's nothing in the world so bad for some women as marriage, he thought; and politics...”

— Virginia Woolf

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man—the…

— Jojo Moyes

“When a man says ‘for better or worse’ he’s thinking of circumstances life brings his way that he and his wife work through together.…

— Nesly Clerge

“He who, being a man, remains a woman, becomes a universal channel. Eternal virtue will flow through him. He will become a child again.”

— Lao Tzu

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

“A man cannot be exactly the way he wants to be and also dream of keeping his wife”

— Manu Joseph

“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.”

— Manu Joseph

“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.”

— George Eliot