Quotes of: Matrimony Keyword

With the first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Italian

The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Traditional

[first lines] Bess McNeill: His name is Jan. The Minister: I do not know him. Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake. The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders. An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is? Bess McNeill: I...

Breaking the Waves

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A. P. Herbert

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

Alan Patrick Herbert

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

George Farquhar

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Karl Kraus

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Helen Rowland

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

Frank Leslie

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

The Note Books of Samuel Butler

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Heinrich Heine

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Nancy Pearcey

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

Jane Austen

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

George Carey

Elizabeth Bennet: Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony.

Pride & Prejudice