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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don’t choose when these things happen, and when they do, there’s no doubt in your mind.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.