William Shakespeare Marriage Quotations

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

My heart is ever at your service.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love you. I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.