Quotes about Marriage

Wade Hatton: Thirty years ago my father met my mother at the London Dairy Fair. He'd come down to sell some prize pigs -- big fat lovely pigs they were. My mother was down there after winning the grand prize for her roses. Roses of Sharon, enormous big things, as big as your face and nearly as beautiful. I don't suppose there were ever roses like that in the whole length and breath of Ireland. Well, what must happen? The very last day of the fair, father's pigs get out and eat up every single one of mother's prize roses -- root, stem, flower and all. Now, did any two people ever get off to a worse start than that? And yet look at them now! Six big lusty sons with score or so of prize pigs and the most beautiful rose garden in the whole of Ireland.

- Errol Flynn (as Wade Hatton) in Dodge City (1939)

Babe Bennett: Here's a guy that's wholesome and fresh. To us, he looks like a freak. Do you know what he told me tonight? He said when he gets married, he wants to carry his bride over the threshold in his arms... I tried to laugh, but I couldn't. It stuck in my throat... He's got goodness, Mabel. Do you know what that is?... No, of course you don't. We've forgotten. We're too busy being smart alecks. Too busy in a crazy competition for nothing.

- Jean Arthur (as Babe Bennett) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Señor Sánchez: This I cannot understand. If I am a married man, it is my problem. What has it got to do with you? I would not be prejudiced if you were married.

- Vito Scotti (as Señor Arturo Sánchez) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Señor Sánchez: I didn't know Dr. Winston was married.
Stephanie: Well, it's always a shock when it happens to someone you know.

- Ingrid Bergman (as Stephanie Dickinson) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Charlotte: Some girls aren't the marrying kind.

- Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) in Now, Voyager (1942)

Tony Manetta: Oh you don't know this guy [his brother Mario]. He thinks any girl that's 21 years old and unmarried is no good.
Shirl: He'll love me. I was married when I was fifteen!

- Carolyn Jones (as Shirl) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Tony Manetta: Marriage? I thought that word was poison to you?

- Frank Sinatra (as Tony Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Egbert Fitzgerald: It's no crime to be married. It just shows a weakness on the part of men that women take advantage of.

- Edward Everett Horton (as Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Madge Hardwick: Here or there, as long as you remain a spinster, you're fair game for any philandering male. What you really should have is a husband you can call your own.

- Helen Broderick (as Madge Hardwick) in Top Hat (1935)

Preysing: I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know.

- Wallace Beery (as General Director Preysing) in Grand Hotel (1932)