Famous Quotes

"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 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 Queen Victoria

• "Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

• "I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."

• "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."

• "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."