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 ShakespeareTag: 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 MontaigneTag: 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 PetersTag: 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 BrontëTag: 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. SayersTag: 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. SayersTag: 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.
Tag: 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 TownsendTag: 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 BrontëTag: 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 ShakespeareTag: happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony
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