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Matrimony Quotes

Heinrich Heine quote: "Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been..."
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Heinrich Heine
Karl Kraus quote: "Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Karl Kraus
Frances Rodman quote: "Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account..."
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. Frances Rodman
Charlotte Bronte quote: "As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends..."
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. Charlotte Bronte
Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed... George Eliot
Oscar Wilde quote: "I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial...."
I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them. Oscar Wilde
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are correct, but in only one respect - only if they happen to be talking about Judaism. Christianity simply does not share that deep and consistent historical reverence toward matrimony. Lately it has, yes- but not originally. For the first thousand or so years of Christian history, the church regarded monogamous marriage... Elizabeth Gilbert
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. Jane Austen
Agatha Christie quote: "Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex..."
Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick Agatha Christie
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. Jeffrey Eugenides
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable. Thomas Hardy
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
As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People... Daniel Defoe
My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."It's a very real power, Harriet."Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. Dorothy L. Sayers
Georgette Heyer quote: "Tell me, is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?"
Tell me, is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony? Georgette Heyer

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