5 quotes
In marriage there must be perfect unity;—one aim, one faith, one love, or the marriage is incomplete, unholy—a mere civil contract and no more.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
John held strongly the opinion that so solemn a festival as marriage is only desecrated by outward show.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I think a wife is bound to the very last to obey in all things not absolutely wrong, her husband's will.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning,
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning;
Never was owl more blind than a lover,
Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)