Quotations About / On: MARRIAGE

  • 41.
    The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    (Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. repr. In Penguin edition (1988). Dr. Urbino, in Love in the Time of Cholera, p. 09 (1985).)
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  • 42.
    My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
    that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "February 17th.")
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  • 43.
    The ache of marriage:
    thigh and tongue, beloved,
    are heavy with it....
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Ache of Marriage.")
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  • 44.
    Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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  • 45.
    There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
    (Alexander Theroux (b. 1940), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. An Adultery, pt. 2, ch. 5, New York, Simon & Schuster (1987).)
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  • 46.
    The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
    (John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Couples, ch. 5 (1968).)
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  • 47.
    Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
    (George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1908). The Bishop, in Getting Married, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).)
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  • 48.
    Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
    (Vicki Baum (1888-1960), Austrian-born U.S. novelist. And Life Goes On, p. 141 (1932).)
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  • 49.
    For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
    (Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 217.)
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  • 50.
    What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
    (Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist. repr. Penguin. Nights at the Circus, part 1, ch. 2, Chatto & Windus (1984).)
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