Marriage Quote by Tracy Chevalier

“Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with me, looking…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Every woman occasionally wonders what manner of man she has married. No matter how long she has been living with her husband, once in…

— Louise Dickinson Rich

“When will you ask for your post back?” he whispered in her ear. “I miss the smell of industrial-strength solvents.” She laughed softly. “Soon.…

— Sherry Thomas

“Was this, she thought, what happened when one made friends with a married woman? One automatically got the husband too? - like a crochet…

— Sarah Waters

“Spinsterhood didn’t matter much to her; she was already married to science.”

— Lev A.C. Rosen

“But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband,…

— Oscar Wilde

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch…

— L.M. Montgomery

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she…

— Anna Quindlen

“I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman’s adventures.”

— Amanda Quick

“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one…

— Stephen King

“Wives are like the flowers on a prickly pear cactus. They’re pretty to look at, but you’re better off not picking one.”

— Norm Bass