Marriage Quote by Wendy Plump

“She knew, even in marriage, if you advanced too far to please the other person it let them edge away and you ended up…

— Terry Hayes

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

“Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.”

— Blanche Ebbutt

“When I ask her if her open marriage isn’t painful, she answers, “Sometimes it is. Sometimes it’s not. But monogamy—which we never negotiated, by…

— Esther Perel

“But above all, marriage is about wanting to share your life with someone you really, truly love but staying with your spouse instead, no…

— Mrs. Stephen Fry

When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to…

— Anthony Trollope

“You married me thinking I would force myself on you?” “I married you knowing that women have very little say in how they are…

— Lorraine Heath

You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of Pooh." "See,…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it…

— Anne Tyler

“Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, "Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.”

— Kevin Bacon

“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