Quotes on “matrimony”

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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)