Sacha Guitry Quotes

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

I am a bit of a control freak. If I get married, my wife isn't going out. No way. She's staying at home. She's not going out to clubs without me. I've already decided the rules, whoever she is.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.