
Top 100 To Marry Quotes
#1. You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.
Warwick Thornton
#2. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.
Loretta Chase
#3. So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
Alice Dreger
#4. I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.
Marc Maron
#5. I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#6. You could always go home."
"To my brothers and their screaming children?" Rahim scoffed. "To the constant attempts to marry me off to a cousin's friend's ugly sister? I think not.
Renee Ahdieh
#7. To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
#9. Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.
Gail Carson Levine
#10. If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. From my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.
Jimmy Soul
#12. People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person they hoped to marry, much less live the life they hoped to live, other people invented new dreams to replace the old ones, finding fresh reasons for discontent.
Katie Kitamura
#13. The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
Gail Collins
#14. To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.
Robertson Davies
#15. The challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
Phyllis Rose
#16. The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.
Bruce R. McConkie
#17. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
Caitlin Moran
#19. Help you? I'd lick you, and most girls would want to marry you if you so much as talked to them.
Missy Lyons
#20. I cringed, though; for as much as I did not want to marry a troll, I was just as certain the troll didn't want to marry me.
Danielle L. Jensen
#21. I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you.
Virginia Woolf
#22. 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
#23. Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya.
Can you imagine? I told him I thought he was a lunatic, and he said he would live in hope. Alosha laughed for ten minutes without stopping except to cough when I told her ...
Naomi Novik
#24. I want to marry you, have babies with you, and grow old with you. I want to do everything on Earth with you and only you.
Micalea Smeltzer
#25. Daniel grinned. "Do something!" he told Jesse. "Marry her, before she does decide to marry Anthony Miller.
Heather Graham
#26. The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
Irving Kristol
#27. If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life).
Elizabeth Gaskell
#28. Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense.
Various
#30. Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that - a hope - as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.
Jasper Fforde
#31. Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.
Harriet Lerner
#32. Maybe it was the alcohol. Yeah. That's probably what it was. The booze must have mixed with the romance in the air and turned him soft. But then, if that's all it was, why did his stomach sink to the floor at her reaction? Did he really want to marry her? He looked
Natalie K. Martin
#33. Jason closed his eye and winced. "Why is this weekend not ending?" "Because the universe hates you, and you agreed to marry a bloodsucking wannabe Real Housewife of New York, who would have used her nails as a way to kill you so we'd all end up on Dateline - crying.
Rachel Van Dyken
#34. Sire," Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, "I'd like to marry Petunia.
"Of course you would," retorted the King Gregor. "But not right now! we just got those two taken care of." He pointed to the twins who were still trying to play Christian's odd game. "And weddings are expensive!
Jessica Day George
#35. My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.
Emily Whitaker
#36. Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.
Spencer W. Kimball
#37. I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid.
Eugene Ionesco
#38. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.
Anne Stuart
#39. Shura ... are you ... in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.
Paullina Simons
#40. It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.
Chelsea Clinton
#41. When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'
Hillary Clinton
#43. I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
Jack Kerouac
#44. But fact is, it's been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be
with anyone.
Gillian Flynn
#45. If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other. No matter which has it, so that there is enough. I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.
Jane Austen
#46. I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."
"Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#47. No worries, I won't force you to marry me. I'll get over you. There are plenty of fish in the sea and all that jazz. - Elora
Quinn Loftis
#48. She would- never mind. She was his servant. Slave mentality. This was not the girl I asked to marry me. She was his slave and believed she knew only joy...where was my wife? What was this creature she stroked and sucked at...
David Foster Wallace
#49. More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.
Ralph Lauren
#50. Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.
Mitch Albom
#51. I think it would be cute to marry your high school sweetheart, but I think it would also be nice to be sitting on a plane with somebody who lives across the world from you.
Shay Mitchell
#52. How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
Jeaniene Frost
#53. I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time
all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
Jack Kerouac
#54. The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook
and isn't.
Evan Esar
#55. I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you, and, yes, I want you to be my empress." Cinder gaped at him for a long moment before she whispered, "That's a lot of wanting." "You have no idea." She
Marissa Meyer
#56. What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.
Evan Wolfson
#57. Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
Marta Kristen
#58. It's not my fault that it's illegal to marry multiple men at the same time; that's like saying that a gay couple isn't as serious as a straight couple because the straight couple is married, at the same time you make it impossible for the gay couple to marry.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#59. You can loose your dignity ,ego or any form of respect to one girl in the universe. But don't forget to marry her ;)
Nelson Jack
#60. Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said.
Lisa Kleypas
#61. I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.
Jimmy Carter
#62. Why?" His voice is suspicious. "Are you two going out now?"
"Yeah, we set up our first date right after he asked me to marry him. Please. We're just friends.
Stephanie Perkins
#63. I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.
Anne Robinson
#64. He glanced at Ty, his body warming all over. Ty had asked him to marry him. He'd been entirely sincere, too, in the way only Ty could be when he thought of something spur of the moment.
Abigail Roux
#65. 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
#66. When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
Alain
#67. As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
Richard H. Davis
#68. Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
Sylvester Stallone
#69. The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Nicholas Sparks
#70. My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#71. I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
Nas
#74. It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry
Merle Shain
#75. I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
Tamora Pierce
#76. In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
Julia Child
#77. It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
Eric Allin Cornell
#78. If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?
Bob Casey Jr.
#79. He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
#80. I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
Helen Gurley Brown
#81. Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
Anthony Perkins
#82. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Amy Bloom
#83. Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
Nicole Trunfio
#84. There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'
Archie Panjabi
#85. 'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.
Conan O'Brien
#86. This wedding is your parents' fault. They named her Kiley. She was doomed from birth to marry a hunky, fratty premed major.
Rainbow Rowell
#87. More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it ...
Gloria Steinem
#88. The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters ... It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in want of a matching strand of DNA.
Daryl Gregory
#89. Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
Martial
#90. Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
Mark McKinnon
#91. She tugged warningly on his shirt. "I am serious! Are you going to marry me, Sean? Finally?"
He smiled, and the light of his smile filled his eyes. "Damn it, Elle! Will you not let me take the lead? Ladies do not propose marriage!"
~Sean O'Neill & Eleanor de Warenne
Brenda Joyce
#93. Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause innocent bystanders to want to marry you.)
Barbara Kingsolver
#94. I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.
Ruth Rendell
#95. Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. "You don't want to marry my son?" "Hell. No." He resumed his seat. "That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.
Chris Cannon
#96. To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
#97. Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.
Miranda Hart
#98. You ought to marry her, then. A man could do worse. How many men can say their wife is their best friend? Besides me, of course. I cannot too highly praise the magic of sharing every day of your life with the one person most calculated to give you pleasure.
Cheryl Bolen
#99. I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year
E. Nesbit
#100. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.
David Letterman
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