Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to death, but sometimes I say, "What are we? Two injured creatures who can't talk to each other without going, like, 'Ahhh!'?"

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the sight of the other; they feel romantic affection for no one else; they stretch their finances to buy a diamond ring; they marry. All is bliss-that is, for a season. Then little inconsequential activities lead to criticism. Little flaws are magnified into great torrents of faultfinding; they fall apart, they separate, and then with rancor and bitterness they divorce.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.