Home / Topics / Marriage Quotes

Marriage Quotes

Browse 6430 quotes about Marriage.

Marriage Quotes

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

Men Self Country Marriage Principles Wife Duty Dance Neighbor Partners Fidelity Emblems

Author:Jane Austen

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”

World Mean Marriage Rights Duty

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

“A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.”

Desire Marriage Wife Duty Wedding Constraints Wives Love

Book:Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

“I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.”

Thinking Men Art Hate Marriage Wife Sacrifice Duty Married I Hate Wedding Rubbish Always Thinking Married Man

Author:J. M. W. Turner

“Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!”

Funny Pleasure Marriage Duty Married

Author:Oscar Wilde

“In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.”

Love Christian Religious Love Is Marriage Relationship Duty Couple Christian Inspirational Pastor Theologian Matrimony Love And Marriage Christian Love Optional Marriage Love Christian Marriage

Author:R. C. Sproul

“A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.”

Men Has Beens Feelings Literature Marriage Duty Difficulty Pursuit

Book:The American Senator

Source: The American Senator

“What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters”

Needs Matter Law Individual Marriage Opinion Teach Duty Educated Public Opinion

Author:Alfred Russel Wallace

“According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.”

Thinking Way Marriage Duty Privilege Way Of Thinking

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.”

Kind Country Together Marriage Wife Generations Duty Husband Accounts Attachment Husband And Wife Living Together

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action