Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Marriage

Quotes about: Marriage

• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Marriage, Drinking

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.254

• An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Marriage, Girl

• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Marriage, Girl, Money

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