“Marriage is like prohibition: only the poor respect it.”
Source: The Columnist Murder
“Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“It would have been better for Marcus if he had been tireder at night.”
Source: Hannah Coulter
“In my head, I've been assuming that when Nicholas says I don't need to work, what he means is that any job I'd qualify for is so beneath his notice that I might as well not work at all. In Nicholas's head, all he's done is say, Here I am, here I am. Be anything! It doesn't matter if you don't make much money, because I'll take care of you. I'll let you need me. I'll be your rock, whatever happens. Spread your wings, you can always fall back on me.”
“If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie”
Source: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
“Die Männer heiraten, weil sie müde sind, die Frauen, weil sie neugierig sind. Beide werden enttäuscht.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Natürlich ist die Ehe nur Gewohnheit. Eine schlechte sogar. Aber man bedauert sogar den Verlust der schlechten Gewohnheit. Kann sein, dass man sie sogar am meisten bedauert.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.”
Source: Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget
“We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie”
Source: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith