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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene V, spoken by ClownIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
Come away, come away, death.
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by DukeIn context
- Life & Death
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i’ th’ bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by ViolaIn context
Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by Don PedroIn context
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Beauty
- Friendship
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by BenedickIn context
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by RosalindIn context
For your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act V, Scene II, spoken by RosalindIn context
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RichardIn context
- Good & Evil
I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
Divorces are made in Heaven
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
In married life three is company and two is none.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Character
- Marriage
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Marriage
- Women