Marriage Girl Quotes

#1. You're the girl that guys like us, if we're smart and if we're lucky that is, you're the girl we marry. You're the marriage girl.

Penny Reid

#2. How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex.

Gillian Flynn

#3. It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

W.C. Fields

#4. Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#5. Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."

"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.

Sylvain Neuvel

#6. A year ago, I would've made fun of that guy, saying what a huge mistake he was making. Guessing how long the marriage would last. But then I met you and now I understand why he just got down on one knee in front of a room full of people and asked a girl to marry him.

Allie Everhart

#7. Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Bridget Moynahan

#9. Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny's great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn't rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.

Meg Wolitzer

#10. Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Anna Godbersen

#11. A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

Cher

#12. I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

Katy Perry

#13. Anyway ... I'm a firm believe that every girl should get one Barbie dream wedding in her lifetime, but if that marriage craps out, I'm also a firm believer that all future weddings must be banned to beaches and back yards.

Chrissy Anderson

#14. Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

Bebe Neuwirth

#15. If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.

Andrew Dice Clay

#16. Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

Douglas Adams

#17. My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.
-Penelope Featherington

Julia Quinn

#18. An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

G. Willow Wilson

#19. I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type.

Castle Season 1 Episode 2

#20. If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Nancy Mitford

#21. secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who would have sacrificed her marriage to him on so short an acquaintance remains

Henry James

#22. How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?

Ramakrishna

#23. When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

#24. I want a little girl with your smile and your smarts. I want Christmases and birthdays and a chocolate Lab who wears an American flag bandana that you name after a political philosopher or something. We can even include him in the family campaign photos.

Chanel Cleeton

#25. Everything about Jocelyn had been ordinary. A Norman Rockwell painting of mom, dad, one boy, one girl. Scott was her wild storm, her great American novel, her epic story. Every extraordinary moment she experienced was because of him.

Jessica Shook

#26. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.

Sara Quin

#27. Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes

Emma Jane Holloway

#28. It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.

Gillian Flynn

#29. Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

Hedy Lamarr

#30. Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.

William Booth

#31. You have the rest of your life to be married. Enjoy falling in love. When girls get caught up in the timeline, it becomes more about the wedding than the marriage. You should be with someone with whom you could elope this weekend and be happy.

Lauren Conrad

#32. I don't call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife, and instead I get a schemer, plotting to pursue her own rotten ambition under the rubric of poetry . . . what a mockery, what a marriage.

Edna O'Brien

#33. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Helen Rowland

#34. It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Euripides

#35. She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

Anthony Kiedis

#36. Marriage? Please. I'll keep my freedom, thanks. Besides, I'm not a girl anyone brings home to their mother.

S.A. Huchton

#37. You wanted a wife but I was
still a girl.

Kate Chisman

#38. I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Michael Bergin

#39. You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that.

E.C. Newman

#40. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#41. I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed.

Phyllis Schlafly

#42. I guess, anything and everything that she wants. Marriage, babies, travelling the world, whatever it may be. I'm my strongest and happiest when she is with me, so all I need is her. I intend to love and cherish that girl until the end of time, and more if it's possible.

Angela Richardson

#43. So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Virginia Woolf

#44. I told you before, I don't want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.

Natasha Anders

#45. My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Mark Twain

#46. Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.

Robert A. Heinlein

#47. I couldn't help but think of Al's pre-ordained betrothal to Billo and of how hard the match-makers had worked to find the girl beautiful enough to match this extraordinary man - this extraordinary man of mine.

Ruth Ahmed

#48. We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#49. But if a girl were possible
as I am possible
then marriage would be possible ...

Gregory Corso

#50. I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

S.A. Tawks

#51. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Elinor Glyn

#52. The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

William Bolitho

#53. And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

P.G. Wodehouse

#54. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.

Brenda Perlin

#55. I was his "little girl with the William Burroughs mind," his "secret fairy," "female Frank Zappa" and "window onto a magical world." He said I fell to earth, leaving wing-marks on the ceilings of our dreams.

Jalina Mhyana

#56. Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

Demi Moore

#57. When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

P.G. Wodehouse

#58. Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

Nujood Ali

#59. I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.

Jon Weisman

#60. We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Matt Passmore

#61. Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

Auliq Ice

#62. Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Johnny Carson

#63. What if a girl grew up like a boy, with marriage an abstract, someday thought, a thing to think about when she became an adult, a thing she could do, or not do, depending? What would that look and feel like?

Anonymous

#64. Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

Kangana Ranaut

#65. I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

Gary Numan

#66. I live in a mixed marriage. I'm a girl. He's a boy...

Jane Jago

#67. I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

Jodi Picoult

#68. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Susan B. Anthony

#69. I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Paul Begala

#70. Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [ ... ] Nobody tell me what make real marriage
respect.

Thrity Umrigar

#71. For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

David Jeremiah

#72. Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.

Costas Taktsis

#73. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

John Edward Williams

#74. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.

Eric Ludy

#75. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.

Maile Meloy

#76. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.

Nya Wampaze

#77. I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Barbara Walters

#78. What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw

#79. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Levenson

#80. If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Marian Wright Edelman

#81. From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Emma Goldman

#82. It's time to undo Rahim.

Nadia Hashimi

#83. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Nancy E. Turner

#84. I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

Desmond Tutu

#85. In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

Mahatma Gandhi

#86. Contrast this with the use by modern Islamic scholars of Muhammad's decision to marry a six-year-old girl, consummating their marriage when she turned nine, to justify child marriage in Iraq and Yemen today.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#87. When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#88. I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

Condoleezza Rice

#89. It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

Natalie Cole

#90. Somehow, having a deer preside over the ceremony of a werewolf and a girl seems oddly appropriate.

Maggie Stiefvater

#91. An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Lord Chesterfield

#92. If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. temperament. I am not the foolish little girl who seeks trouble anymore. Ye can trust me not to be reckless, but I will fight for our people if need be." Duncan pulled her into a fierce embrace. "I worry for ye, lass," he whispered. "Ye should be thinking of marriage and a family, not climbing cliff

Lily Baldwin

#94. The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

Milan Kundera

#95. Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

Sigmund Freud

#96. Love a girl truly
Expectation: Marriage
Reality : Friendzoned

Subhasis Das

#97. I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

Chetan Bhagat

#98. It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

Grayson L. Kirk

#99. This was the woman Narasimhan had married, as opposed to whatever girl from Madras his family wanted for him. Subhash wondered how his family reacted to her. He wondered if she'd ever been to India. If she had, he wondered whether she'd liked it or hated it. He could not guess from looking at her

Jhumpa Lahiri

#100. In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.

Doris Kearns Goodwin