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It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Physiology of Marriage (1829)
- Love
I’m very romantic, I’m extremely romantic. I date my wife.
Alice Cooperborn 1948Interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope (20 June 2005)
- Love
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
- Age
When I’m married I want to be single, and when I’m single I want to be married.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
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
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Happiness
- Luck
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Love
- Women
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Men
- Women
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Money
Reader, I married him.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXXVIIIIn context
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Truth & Lies
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