In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari-I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.