Famous Quotes

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

Iris Murdoch on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Iris Murdoch

• "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

• "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

• "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

• "We can only learn to love by loving."

• "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."