Quotes about marriage
145 quotes from 90 people
Rita Rudnerborn 1953Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)
Jimmy Carter1924–2024According to Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96 (November 26, 2023)
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. 2, Pt.. 5, Ch. 2: The Mother, p. 522She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)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)
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
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130
Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011Elizabeth Taylor: An informal memoir (1965)
Jane Fondaborn 1937Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Brad Pittborn 1963US Weekly (18 September 2000)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque”, Ch. 2.You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
