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145 quotes from 90 people
It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop—that is, with a marriage; but when he writes of juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
“All romances end at marriage.”
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage
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.
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.
Divorces are made in Heaven
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.
In married life three is company and two is none.
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.
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.
