Matrimony Quotes

• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Funny, Romantic

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

  St. Jerome

  Religious, Vices, Done

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• Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Sea, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Drink, Disorder, Dangerous

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• the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Philosophy, Blessing, Reality

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.75

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• It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

  Anna Godbersen

  Blow, Hands, Suffering

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

  Peter De Vries

  Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage

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• [Matrimony] is the grave of love.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Graves

  "The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 1894.

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• Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Money

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres

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• No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

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• The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Marriage, Order

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pride, Triumph, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Years, Thrive, Hard

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• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  A. P. Herbert

  Marriage, Time, Breakfast

  Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Society, Literature

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Reason, Patrimony

  Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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• Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

  John Lyly

  Heaven, Made

  John Lyly (1858). “The Dramatic Works of John Lilly: Mydas. Mother Bombie. The woman in the moone. Love's metamorphosis. Notes”, p.119

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• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Clever, Rivals

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Marriage, Taste, Incompatibility

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Being Single

  1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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