I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it.
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
His idea of a wife is a thing to love one devotedly, and to stay at home — to wait upon her husband, and amuse him and minister to his comfort in every possible way, while he chooses to stay with her; and, when he is absent, to attend to his interests, domestic or otherwise, and patiently wait his return; no matter how he may be occupied in the meantime.
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
"Why did you marry me into this family, mother?" said Lipa."One has to be married, daughter. It was not us who ordained it."