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Barkis is willin’.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 5In context
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 12In context
It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Comedy
My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XLIIn context
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 30.
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
John Donne1572–1631Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)
- Clever Jabs
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
ADAlexis Dupuy
I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.
Amelia Earhart1897–1939Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary S. Lovell
You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII1894–1972Abdication broadcast (11 December 1936)
- Love
- Responsibility
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Representative Men (1850)
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
Ian Fleming1908–1964
- Age
I vowed I wouldn’t get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did⁠—but I got married anyway.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969
- Comedy
I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman — my dear wife — as I begin this very difficult job.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790