Henry Adams Quotes About Marriage

Quotes about: Marriage

• Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Chance, Companionship

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 4 (1907)

• The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Capacity, Cornerstones

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.151, Booklassic

• The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Children, Men

  Henry Adams (1973). “Historical Essays”, p.1, Georg Olms Verlag

• Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Passion, Men

  Henry Adams (1973). “Historical Essays”, p.6, Georg Olms Verlag

• Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Blind

  "Esther: A Novel". Book by Henry Adams, 1884.

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