Quotes About Matrimonial

#1. I have to admit my Elomi bridal lingerie was exquisite. I'd been so certain it would wow Chris, spur him into some post-matrimonial lustfulness. What a joke. A strap-on might have been a better idea.

Kylie Scott

#2. A short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Margaret Deland

#3.
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

#4. Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

Emil Kraepelin

#7. She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.

Alasdair Gray

#8. Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.

Harriet Hosmer

#9. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Pope John Paul II

#10. The matrimonial shoe pinches me.

Amelia Barr

#11. And Jessica saw in Richard an enormous amount of potential, which, properly harnessed by the right woman, would have made him the perfect matrimonial accessory.

Neil Gaiman

#12. These men, as she often muttered to friend Eleanor Topping, the two of them pressed together like sisters, their friendship filling in for the matrimonial gaps. These men, romantically isolated, secretly tortured, became like lighthouses flashing their treacherous shallows. Stay away! Stay away!

David Gilbert

#13. I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Gertrude Atherton

#15. Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#16. Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.

Guru Nanak

#17. We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back where you began.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#18. He seemed to be an eternal on-sale item in the matrimonial market that everybody bypassed for the fancier merchandise.

Diana Palmer

#19. CHAPTER LX CHIEFLY MATRIMONIAL

Charles Dickens

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

Clare Boothe Luce

#21. 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

#22. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

#23. Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters.

Louisa May Alcott

#24. They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise.

Keira D. Skye

#25. All the Directors were happy that they had been able to enjoy a bit of extra-marital sex without breaking their matrimonial vows & seeing how pleased they were, the lovely slave offered to perform for them a dance of love & ecstasy.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#26. Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.

Thomas Hardy

#27. In matrimonial geography the distance between the first mute recognition of a break and the admission thereof is as great as the distance between the first naive faith and the first doubting.

Sinclair Lewis

#28. This revolution - will it be a living?'
'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged tomorrow.'
'Is that usual?'
'Oh, they always hang my clients. Even in property and matrimonial cases.

Hilary Mantel

#29. Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Jane Austen

#30. If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

Mary Edwards Walker

#31. Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#32. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?

George Eliot

#33. Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.

Blanche Ebbutt

#34. No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Fanny Burney

#35. The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Jeffrey Eugenides