Marriage Quote by William Shakespeare

“Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as…

— Katherine Arden

“That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other qualification, whether…

— Daniel Defoe

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“Quite so, quite so,” agreed the Viscount inconsistently, not from any want of intelligence but rather from the habit he had formed of naturally…

— Rachel Carter

“Romance Of A Youngest Daughter" Who will wed the Dowager’s youngest daughter, The Captain? filled with ale? He moored his expected boat to a…

— John Crowe Ransom

“Is it but this,—a tardiness in nature Which often leaves the history unspoke That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy, What say…

— William Shakespeare

“As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend,…

— Alexander Dumas

“Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of…

— Fanny Fern

“His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very…

— Jane Austen

“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and…

— Jacqueline Carey

“Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense tou whilt.”

— William Shakespeare

“By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.”

— Ian McEwan