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 Shakespeare

Mots clés humor life love marriage repentance courtship matrimony wedding wooing



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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

Mots clés freedom marriage relationships cages matrimony single married-life captivity



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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 Peters

Mots clés humor intelligence women marriage feminism intelligent husbands matrimony



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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Charlotte Brontë

Mots clés life death marriage matrimony jane-eyre charlotte-bronte honeymoon edward-fairfax-rochester



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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. Sayers

Mots clés greatness empowerment gender men women choice marriage feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés matrimony social-norms



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A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés intelligence marriage independence matrimony irritability recklessness



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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

Mots clés equality fight devotion matrimony dignity married-life quarrel disagreements blackmail domestic-life



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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 Townsend

Mots clés marriage divorce matrimony



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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 Brontë

Mots clés love empowerment gender women choice marriage storytelling inequality sarcasm irony discord courtship matrimony subjection disharmony



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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

William Shakespeare

Mots clés happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony



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