X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Matrimony" (117)

Page 4 of 5
Filter & Style
Image
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law true source of human happiness.
John Milton
Image
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.
Fanny Lewald
Image
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
Emily Murphy
Image
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope
Image
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
Johannes Brahms
Image
Jealousy destroys the matrimonies jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.
Samael Aun Weor
Image
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
John Lyly
Image
If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
Bruce Barton
Image
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine You give away myself, which is known mine For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
William Shakespeare
Image
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
Image
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott
Image
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.
Heinrich Heine
Image
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash
Image
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
Image
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
Image
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
Image
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
Jane Austen
Image
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Aaron Hill
Image
I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
Billy Connolly
Image
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.
John Ford
Image
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
Previous
Next