#Marriage Quotes

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”

“A young man married is a man that's marred.”

“Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.”

“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.”

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

“Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,Makes me with thy strength to communicate.”

“Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”

“Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday”

“Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.”

“The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.”

“As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.”

“Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.”

“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of”

“If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.”

“God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.”

“Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.”

“You are my true and honourable wife;As dear to me as the ruddy dropsThat visit my sad heart.”

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

“I will be master of what is mine own:She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,My household stuff, my field, my barn,My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.”

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.”

“Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.”

“I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance commits his bodyTo painful labour both by sea and land,To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;And craves no other tribute at thy handsBut love, fair looks and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt.”

“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”

“There's villainous news abroad.”

“Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.”

“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.”

“She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.”

“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”

“A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.”

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.”

“We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.”

“As for my wife,I would you had her spirit in such another;The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffleYou may pace easy, but not such a wife.”

“[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.”

“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.”

“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”

“Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose thatthe world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.”