Courtesy Quote by William Congreve

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of…

— Arnold Bennett

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a…

— Arnold Bennett

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being…

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

— Federico Fellini

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault…

— Charles Dickens

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

— Frank Pittman

A man does not recover from such a passion, from such a woman, he ought not, he does not.

— Captain Wentworth

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

— Ursula Parrott

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His…

— H. L. Mencken

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick…

— Samuel Johnson

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