Myrtle Reed Quotes

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

All romances end at marriage.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

It's kind of frustrating when you're watching something and you know what's real and then people are telling you no. Fans are very into the idea of good old-fashioned marriage. They don't like pretending when you're married that you're not.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.