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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


#devotion #dignity #disagreements #domestic-life #equality

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


Dorothy L. Sayers


#intelligence #irritability #marriage #matrimony #recklessness

Can`t you see that I`m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?


Titus Petronius Niger


#humour #irony #latin #nonsense #satyre

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


#force-of-nature #marriage #matrimony #nature #pleasure

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.' 'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.


Anne Brontë


#expectations #husband #love #matrimony #wife

My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth — all woman!


Nat C. Goodwin


#matrimony #wives #marriage

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!


Colley Cibber


#matrimony #wedding-ring #marriage

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.


Israelmore Ayivor


#happy #heaven #hell #hot #marriage

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...


Thomas Hardy


#ethereal #matrimony #men #nerves #prude

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.


Jane Austen


#argument #being #dreadful #favor #matrimony






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