Quotes about Marriage

Aunt Alicia: Marriage is not forbidden to us, but instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married at last.

- Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi (1958)

Angel: Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license.

- Gloria Grahame (as Angel) in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Kip Lurie: Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children... and other lawyers.

- David Wayne (as Kip Lurie) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Harold: You all gotta remember one thing: that I [quietly] am the boss in this house.

- W.C. Fields (as Harold Bissonette) in It's a Gift (1934)

Gerry Jeffers: You're married to me; that's like saying, you're *blind* to me. For a long time, I've been a part of you, just something to snuggle up to and keep you warm at night, like a blanket, but you can't *see* me any more than you can see the back of your neck.

- Claudette Colbert (as Gerry Jeffers) in The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Turkey Jackson: We're going to get married on... . uh... . when is the big day, Dream Thing?
Princess Shalmar: When the moon, in its last quarter, silvers the blossoms of the almond tree. That's Tuesday night, about nine.

- Dorothy Lamour (as Princess Shalmar) in Road to Morocco (1942)

Mr. Bennett: An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins. And I will never see you again if you do.

- Edmund Gwenn (as Mr. Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Schatze Page: You wanna catch a mouse, you set a mouse trap. All right so we set a bear trap. Now all we gotta do, is one of us has got to catch a bear.
Loco Dempsey: You mean marry him?
Schatze Page: If you don't marry him, you haven't caught him, he's caught you.

- Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Newsboy: (shouting) Petrov and Keene: secret marriage!
Peter P. Peters: We're the only two people in New York who don't think we're married.
Linda Keene: Think? I know we're not.
Peter P. Peters: I'm beginning to have my doubts.

- Ginger Rogers (as Linda Keene) in Shall We Dance (1937)

Bilge Smith: So that's why you joined the navy -- you thought a torpedo would be easier to dodge than the shotgun.

- Randolph Scott (as Bilge Smith) in Follow the Fleet (1936)