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I’ve been married too many times. How terrible to change children’s affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won’t be there next year.
Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011Elizabeth Taylor: An informal memoir (1965)
- Children
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XVIIn context
- Comedy
God help the man who won’t marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
BTBen Tillett1860–1943
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Money
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.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), ConclusionIn context
- Writing
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 1
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire1694–1778
Don’t marry a man to reform him⁠—that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West1893–1980
- Men
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act IIIIn context
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act IIn context
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Friendship
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
- Men
- Women