Matrimony Quotes - Page 8

• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Fashion, Ideas, Gentleman

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Christian, Heaven, Saint

  4 Copy quote

• I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

  Barbara Mertz

  Husband, Independent, Intelligent

  52 Copy quote

• I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Couple, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Jesus, Order, Perfect

  7 Copy quote