Love Quote by Walter Scott

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Ashlyn Macnamara

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“that this is what I wanted my marriage to be like? This cold, unfeeling, back and forth that has left nothing but resentment and…

— Francette Phal

“They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such…

— Lisa Kleypas

“A woman isn’t just married to her husband, but to his whole family”

— Chanrithy Him

“For them, wives were never the better half. They were better and the half merely existed.”

— Anju Shylaja Kumar

“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally…

— Hannah Crafts

“I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no…

— Oakley Hall

“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald