Quotes about Marriage

Harvey Greenfield: All girls want to be married. I know. I've been subdivided three times.

- Jack Weston (as Harvey Greenfield) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Dale Tremont: How could he have made love to me when he was married all the time -- and to Madge of all people!

- Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat (1935)

Alice Sycamore:That's not true! Grandpa, I won't stand for it! I won't stand for our being humiliated like this! They were ashamed to say why they were there. They're ashamed to admit they came to look my family over -- to see if I was good enough to marry their precious son!

- Jean Arthur (as Alice Sycamore) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Scarlett: Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?

- Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Mammy: What gentlemen says and what they thinks is two different things, and I ain't noticed Mr. Ashley askin' for to marry you.

- Hattie McDaniel (as Mammy) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Rhett Butler: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?
Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.

- Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Rhett Butler: I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Scarlett: But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although you are awfully kind.
Rhett Butler: I'm not kind, I'm just tempting you.
Scarlett: Well if you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won't.
Rhett Butler: Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Rhett Butler: Would you satisfy my curiosity on a point which has bothered me for some time?
Scarlett: Well, what is it? Be quick!
Rhett Butler: Tell me, Scarlett, do you never shrink from marrying men you don't love?

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

King Richard: Arise Robin, Baron of Locksley, Earl of Sherwood and Nottingham, and lord of all the lands and manors appertaining thereto. My first command to you, my lord Earl, is to take in marriage the hand of the Lady Marian... What say you to that, Baron of Locksley?
Robin Hood: May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, sire!

- Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)