David O. Selznick Quotes

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

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

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

I would never want to get married.

In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

I'm pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people - and this is purely from observation; I'm not an expert - but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.