“Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
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Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.”
“Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.”
Source: Collected Poems
“A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.”
“If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
“Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.”
Source: Roads to Freedom
“There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.”
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.”
“All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.”
“I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!”
“I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.”
“Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.”
“There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Meredith (Illustrated)
“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.”
“To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!”
Source: Wifes And Daughters
“When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
Source: Sybil