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Quotations: Sample love and marriage quotations
Woody Allen
US film writer, director, and actor
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy then, is to suffer, but, suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
[Love and Death 1975]
Jane Austen
English novelist
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor – which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
[Letter to Fanny Knight 13 March 1817]
Brigitte Bardot
French film actor
In marriage you are chained, it is an obligation; living with someone is a mutual agreement that is renegotiated and re-endorsed every day.
[Quoted in News of the World 1974]
Cher
US singer and actor
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
[Quoted in M Brown and A O'Connor (eds) Hammer and Tongues]
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hungarian-born US film actor
I haven't known many open marriages, though quite a few have been ajar.
[Quoted in M Brown and A O'Connor Hammer and Tongues]
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed and number two stayed.
[Attributed remark]
Frank Muir
English writer and broadcaster
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Altar. Hymn.
[Upon My Word, 'Jug of Wine']
Libby Purves
English broadcaster and writer
Had we but world enough and time,
This note would be a Valentine.
Since married life is what we have,
It's just to remind you to bring home
The haddock and the Sanilav.
[Quoted in Woman's Hour Book of Humour, 'Just a Housewife?']
Jean Rostand
French biologist and writer
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
[Marriage]
Mae West
US vaudeville, stage, and film actor
Love thy neighbour – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
[Quoted in J Weintraub Peel Me a Grape]
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