Marriage Quote by Richard Russo

“There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“If only. -- You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be two of…

— Lesley Kagen

“...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.”

— Lanier Ivester

“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

“And although he had never thought a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions—or at least…

— Melanie Dickerson

“My marriage to him was as willful an act as I have ever committed; I married him against all the evidence. I married him…

— Nora Ephron

“It was impossible to tell at first sight whether he loved his meek, obedient wife, Marfa. But he really did lover her, and she…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“the words of his daughter’s married lover, the only time he had met him,”

— Bernard Minier

“In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.”

— Ashlyn Macnamara

“He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.”

— John Connolly

“He never married. But he wrote a good book.”

— George MacDonald