It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.

That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."

If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.

Charles Dickens

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

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As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Charlotte Brontë

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Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

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They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Coco Chanel

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