Quotes about Marriage

Angelo Donatello: My brother once took a dame like that to the Sons of Italy Ball. Boom! He's married and ever since, he's been having sons of Italy all over the place. You know what I mean?

- Harry Guardino (as Angelo Donatello) in Houseboat (1958)

Tom Winters: Are you worried that her intentions are honorable?
Angelo Donatello: Yeh. It worries me sick! Because I can feel myself just slipping right into community property!

- Harry Guardino (as Angelo Donatello) in Houseboat (1958)

Peter P. Peters: I told you, I haven't even met her. But I'd kinda like to marry her... I think I will.

- Fred Astaire (as Petrov) in Shall We Dance (1937)

Mr. Melville: There's three times in a man's life when he has a right to yell at the moon: when he marries, when his children come, and... and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.

- Harry Carey (as Mr. Melville) in Red River (1948)

Fran Kubelik: When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara.

- Shirley MacLaine (as Fran Kubelik) in The Apartment (1960)

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?
Scarlett: How did you ever get out of jail? Why didn't they hang you?

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

Rhett Butler: So, you see I shall have to marry you.
Scarlett: I've never heard of such bad taste.
Rhett Butler: Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?
Scarlett: Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!
Rhett Butler: Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?
Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett Butler: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Scarlett: You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.

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

[Trying to convince Alma she loves living alone]
Jan: Well, what am I missing?
Alma: If you have to ask, you're missing it!

- Thelma Ritter (as Alma) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Alma: If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

- Thelma Ritter (as Alma) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Jonathan Forbes: Brad, she is the sweetest, she is the loveliest, she is the most talented woman I have ever met.
Brad Allen: That's what you said when you married that stripper.
Jonathan Forbes: She wasn't a stripper. She was an exotic dancer... with trained doves.

- Tony Randall (as Jonathan Forbes) in Pillow Talk (1959)