Shirley Hazzard Quotes

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.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.