marriage:
1. The act of marrying.2. The state of being married or united as man and wife .
See marriage [SYN] for synonyms.
QUOTES:
(1) Trixie (Lillian Roth) in Madam Satan (1930): ' Something for nothing , that's the marriage game .'
(2) Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939):
-- Rhet: ' Did you ever think of marrying just for fun? '
-- Scarlett: ' Marriage, fun. Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men, you mean .'
(3) Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers) and David Grant (Ronald Colman) in Lucky Partners (1940):
-- Jean: ' You don't believe in marriage? '
-- David: ' That institution, like the Coliseum in Rome, is still standing , but it certainly shows the ravages of time, doesn't it? '
(4) Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) to Pierre (Charles Drake) and his fiancee Annette (Lois Collin) in A Night in Casablanca (1946):-- Ronald: ' Why don't you two lovebirds get married? '
-- Pierre: ' Oh, marriage is impossible .'
-- Ronald: ' Only after you're married .'
(5) Charlie Bewell (Louis Calhern) to his daughter Susan (Lucille Ball) in Forever, Darling (1956): ' The thing to remember is that in marriage the husband and wife are one... and the husband is the one .'
(6) Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) who is in-love-with a cheap detective in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953):
-- Lorelei: ' You don't want to end up with a loveless marriage , do you? '
-- Dorothy: ' Me?! Loveless?! '
-- Lorelei: ' That's right. Because if a girl spends all her time worrying about the money she doesn't have, how is she going to have any time for being in love? I want you to find happiness and stop having fun .'
(7) Big Mama Pollit (Judith Anderson) to Maggie Pollit (Elizabeth Taylor) while tapping the bed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958): ' When a marriage goes on the rocks , the rocks are there, right there .'
(8) Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford), at 65, plans to marry again in The Matchmaker (1958): ' I like my house run well, with order, comfort and economy. That's a woman's work . But even a woman can't do-it well if she's merely paid for it . In order to run a house well a woman must have the feeling that she owns it . So, marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder .'
(9) Michael James (Peter O'Toole) to his fiancée (Romy Schneider) about marriage in What's New Pussycat? (1965): ' Now is the time to live and experiment. Marriage is for life . It's like cement .'
(10) Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) in The Fortune Cookie (1966): ' Funny thing about marriage . It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist .'
(11) Oscar (Walter Matthau) in The Odd Couple (1968): ' Takes two to make a rotten marriage .'
(12) Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) and Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) who was frozen in the year 1973 and awakened in 2173 in Sleeper (1973):
-- Luna: ' It's hard to believe you haven't had sex for two hundred years .'
-- Miles: ' Two hundred and four if you count my marriage .'
(13) Leo Schneider (Joseph Bologna) in Chapter Two (1979): ' The problem with marriage is that it's relentless. Every morning when you wake up it's still there. If I could just get a leave of absence once in a while. I used to get them all the time in the army. I always came back .'
(14) Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) and Alec (Judd Nelson) in St. Elmo's Fire (1985):
-- Kevin: ' The notion of two people spending their entire lives together was invented by people who were lucky to make-it to twenty without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is obsolete .'
-- Alec: ' Dinosaurs are obsolete. Marriage is still around .'
(15) Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) in Clue (1986): ' Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage .'
(16) The Council Chief (Tony Jay), consulting The Monchine, a dictionary, to Celeste (Kim Basinger) in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988): ' The Monchine 40 says: Marriage is this. He goes off to fight the Turks and you put on a lock . (2nd definition.) Marriage is this: You cook and clean and bring him martinis. (3rd definition.) The modern marriage . There are no rules or responsabilities but if he does something wrong you can set him on fire while he sleeps and go on a talk show where everybody will forgive you and love you .'
(17) Jimmy (Tom Selleck) in An Innocent Man (1989): ' Marriage... the final frontier! '
(18) Divorce lawyer Gavin D'Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ' If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .'
(19) Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in Dinner at Eight (1989): ' I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'
(20) Finn (Winona Ryder) to Marianna (Alfre Woodard) in How to Make an American Quilt (1995): ' You see , what they don't tell us is that marriage is this anachronistic institution created for the sole convenience of the father who needs to pass off his daughters to the care of another man . Like 'here, here, she eats too much. Take her off my hands', you know? But now, now that we've gotten our independence, that we earn our own livings, there's no purpose to being someone's wife . Why can't we love as many people as we want in a lifetime? '
(21) Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) and Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) in Wayne's World (1992):
-- Garth: ' Are you going to marry her? '
-- Wayne: ' Garth, marriage is punishment for shop-lifting in some countries .'
(22) Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941): ' Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet .'
(23) Shirley (Pauline Collins) in Shirley Valentine (1989): ' You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage . Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution .'
(24) Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) refusing to marry the Widow Hawkins (Marjorie Main) in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947): ' Mrs. Hawkins, marriage is nothing but a three ring circus : first the engagement ring , and then the wedding ring , and then the suffering .'
(25) Marlo Manners (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): ' Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between covers .'
(26) Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): ' I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic? '
(27) A 12-year old Hutterian, Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to a much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994):
-- Ezechiel: ' I don't think our marriage is working .'
-- Havana: ' Then we have something in common with every married couple in America .'
(28) Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) and her husband Freddie (Craig T. Nelson) who is filing for divorce in Troop Beverly Hills (1989):
-- Phyllis : ' Did it ever occur to you that marriage is a partnership? '
-- Freedie: ' Yeah, that's right. I earn the money and my partner spends it .'
(29) Mrs Yussim (Jane Hoffman) to Margaret Reynolds (Barbra Streisand) in Up the Sandbox (1972): ' Remember, marriage is a seventy-five, twenty-five proposition . The woman gives seventy-five .'
(30) Henny Youngman: ' Marriage is the billing after the cooing .'
(31) William Shakespeare: ' Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything .'
(32) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914): ' Marriage: a master , a mistress and two slaves, making in all two .'
(33) Murray (Jason Robards) to Sandra (Barbara Harris) in A Thousand Clowns (1965):
-- Murray Burns: ' Will you marry me? '
-- Sandra Moskowitz: ' What!? '
-- Murray Burns: ' Just a bit of shock treatment there. I have found, after long experience, it's the quickest way to get a woman's attention when her mind wanders. Always works .'
(34) Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) flirting with Gloria Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) in Duck Soup (1933): ' Married! I can see you now, in the kitchen , bending over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove .'
(35) Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan) to her maid Martha (Hattie McDaniel) in The Shopworn Angel (1938): ' Why do you want to get married anyway? When a man knows he's got you then you haven't got him .'
(36) Julie (Lucille Ball) and Charlie (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941):
-- Julie Patterson: ' Marriage is a strong institution, Charlie .'
-- Charlie McCarthy: ' So is Alcatraz, but I wouldn't want to live in it .'
(37) Monty Woolley (as himself) in Night and Day (1946): ' The only marriage I ever approved of was that of my father and mother .'
(38) Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): ' I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic? '
(39) Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in The War of the Roses (1989): ' I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'
(40) Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) in Guys and Dolls (1955): ' No matter who you marry you wake up married to someone else .'
(41) Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): ' A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
(42) Nina (Susan Anspach) and Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973):-- Nina: ' We could live-together for a while .'-- Stephen: ' The trouble with living together is that you're always thinking when are you gonna stop living together and get married and really start living together .'
(43) Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): ' You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .'
(44) Norma Lindt (Evelyn Ankers) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello) in Hold That Ghost (1941):
-- Norma: ' What happened to Camille? '
-- Ferdie: ' Me and her had a runaway marriage .'
-- Norma: ' A runaway marriage? '
-- Ferdie: ' Yeah. She got the marriage license and I run away .'
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Quotes Containing marriage:
'Just remember, this is a mercy-fuck .' Ellen Stone (Dyan Cannon) consenting to have-sex-with her ex-husband Harry (Danny Aiello) to keep him from jumping out the window and as an alternative to re-marriage in The Pickle (1993)
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