A Quote by Nancy Mitford

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Nancy Mitford

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Nancy Mitford
English - Novelist
November 28, 1904 - June 30, 1973

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Ellen Glasgow

The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist we can all see these unions: the marriages in which tenderness meets loyalty, where generosity sweetens moroseness, where a sense of beauty eases some aridity of the spirit, are not so easy for outsiders to recognize; the parties themselves may not be fully aware of such elements in a good match.

Robertson Davies

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Mark Twain

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Cesare Pavese

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

He that marries late, marries ill.

George Herbert

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

Heinrich Heine

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

Adolf Hitler

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Kin Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Elbert Hubbard

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

Laura Schlessinger

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Samuel Johnson

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

Tobsha Learner

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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