143 Quotes About Married-life

That did eat up considerable time and effort. But I carved out a little time between bloodbaths.I’ve just put it together for you this morning, while you were getting a little more beauty sleep.”“Is that a dig?”“Darling, how is telling you you’re beautiful a dig?”Her answer was a snort as she strapped on her weapon.

She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.

For some, married life is like Orwell's 1984.

Look, Mister, if you wanna call yourself Grunthaar and run around the woods in a loincloth all day, that’s all very well, but don’t expect supper to be waiting when you get home.

Solitude can force you to get married

The impression I have, therefore, of marriage in my sixties is of a time when I took to living only for the moment -- when, above all, I took to expecting nothing that long years of close association had by now, at long last, assured me would never occur. He would not change his personality or his habits of loving, and neither would I. [pp. 213-214].

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness

When he had first known her, the violent decisiveness with which she judged people had charmed him. For Emma, people were enemies or protectors. Even though the charm had worn off, he sometimes envied her–her sense of others devoid of the kind of complex and enervating reflections he was given to–for within her limits she was clear while he, he thought, moved in a permanent blur.