Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Marriage

Quotes about: Marriage

• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Marriage, Police

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers".

• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Laughter, Philosophical

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.572, Jazzybee Verlag

• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Husband, Selfish

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

• The essence of love is kindness.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Marriage, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4469, Delphi Classics

• If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, People, Married

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4453, Delphi Classics

• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Police

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

• Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Suicide, Married

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 2'

• Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Long, Disputes

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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