Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
William ShakespeareMots clés humor life love marriage repentance courtship matrimony wedding wooing
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Michel de MontaigneMots clés freedom marriage relationships cages matrimony single married-life captivity
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)
Elizabeth PetersMots clés humor intelligence women marriage feminism intelligent husbands matrimony
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Charlotte BrontëMots clés life death marriage matrimony jane-eyre charlotte-bronte honeymoon edward-fairfax-rochester
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés greatness empowerment gender men women choice marriage feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés matrimony social-norms
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés intelligence marriage independence matrimony irritability recklessness
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.
Mots clés equality fight devotion matrimony dignity married-life quarrel disagreements blackmail domestic-life
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
Sue TownsendMots clés marriage divorce matrimony
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte BrontëMots clés love empowerment gender women choice marriage storytelling inequality sarcasm irony discord courtship matrimony subjection disharmony
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William ShakespeareMots clés happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony
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