Unhappy Union Quotes

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

[It is] cruel to continue by violence an union made at first by mutual love, but now dissolved by hatred. The end of marriage vs propagation & happiness. Where [there] can be neither, it should be dissolved.

What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.