Quotes
<< Prev Next >>
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation.
Pride and Prejudice
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
To the Lighthouse
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war
No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom
To marry unequally is to suffer equally
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays