William Shakespeare Quotes About Marriage

• When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Thinking, Married

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

• My heart is ever at your service.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.606

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

• They do not love that do not show their love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.20

• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Night, Clown

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

• In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Savages, Yoke

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [271]

• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

• A young man married is a man that's marred.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Men

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

• I have thrust myself into this maze,
  Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, May, Mazes

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.187, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The curse of marriage
  That we can call these delicate creatures ours
  And not their appetites!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Vapor, Adultery

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

• In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Fate, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

• Marriage is a matter of more worth
  Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Matter

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 5, sc.7, l.55-6.

• Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Wife

  1598 Benedick to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.121-2.

• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells, Hasty

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

• With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Funeral, Mirth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

• Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Fool

  1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

• If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Men, No Fear

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.196

• The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Coriolanus”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

• Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Destiny, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Nerissa.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.81-2.

• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

• The instances that second marriage move
  Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Moving, Thrift

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

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