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She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#marriage #love

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. ("The Lifted Veil") ↗

— Mary Ann Evans

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mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage est pure affaire de hasard. La félicité de deux époux ne m’apparaît pas devoir être plus grande du fait qu’ils se connaissaient à fond avant leur mariage ; cela n’empêche pas les divergences de naître ensuite et de provoquer les inévitables déceptions. Mieux vaut, à mon avis, ignorer le plus possible les défauts de celui qui partagera votre existence ! ↗

— Jane Austen

#love-story #marriage #love

يَحلم الرّجُل بِ إمّرَأةٍ كــآمِلَة! ،وتَحلم المَرأة بِ رَجُلٍ كــآمِلْ! و لآ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ الله خَلَقَهُم لِ يُكَمِّلا بَعْضَهُمْ البَعْضْ. ↗

— احمد الشقيري

#love #marriage #love

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#wife #marriage

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#marriage #w-somerset-maugham #marriage

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. ↗

— Alyssa Kress

#quality #virtue #marriage

I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type. ↗

— Castle Season

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Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#marriage #public-school #society #marriage

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it. ↗

— Judith Merkle Riley

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