The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
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The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
It is the growth of the moral sense of women that makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided institution.
It's perfectly scandalous the amount of bachelors who are going about society. There should be a law passed to compel them all to marry within twelve months.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
It's a curious thing, Duchess, about the game of marriage--a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion--the wives hold all the honours, and invariably lose the odd trick.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. 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.
In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other.