bigamy:
The act of marrying one person while still legally married to another. If done knowingly, it is a criminal offense.Quotes:
(1) Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) proposing marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) in Animal Crackers (1930):
-- Spaulding: ' Well, what do you say, girls? Are we all going to get married? '
-- Rittenhouse: ' All of us? '
-- Spaulding: ' All of us! '
-- Rittenhouse: ' Yes, but that's bigamy! '
-- Spaulding: ' Yes, and it's big-of-me too. It's big of all of us. Let's be big for a change. I'm sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? '
(2) Claude Jobert (Judge Reinhold) a man with two wives and one mistress in Near Misses (1991): ' Just because bigamy is illegal doesn't mean it's easy .'
(3) Frederic Mullally, The Penthouse Sexicon (1968): ' Man who believes that two mates are more fun than one. Naturally, this makes him a criminal .'
See Also: bigamist, bigamous, bigamy, Torquemada, Tomas de
Quotes Containing bigamy:
Oscar Wilde: ''Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.''
Claude Jobert (Judge Reinhold) a man with two wives and one mistress in Near Misses (1991): ''Just because bigamy is illegal doesn''t mean it''s easy.''
Oscar Wilde: ''Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.''
Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) proposing marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) in Animal Crackers (1930): - Spaulding: ''Well, what do you say, girls? Are we all going to get married?'' - Rittenhouse: ''All of us?'' - Spaulding: ''All of us!'' - Rittenhouse: ''Yes, but that''s bigamy!'' - Spaulding: ''Yes, and it''s big-of-me too. It''s big of all of us. Let''s be big for a change. I''m sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother?''
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