When you’re married you’ll understand the importance of fresh produce. The Sopranos s2e7: D-Girl starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Gran, HBO 2000
I want to marry you. The Sopranos s2e8: Full Leather Jacket s2e8, Chris to Adriana
What’s advertising but a legalised con game? And what the hell’s marriage? The Anderson Tapes 1971 starring Sean Connery & Christopher Walken & Alan King & Martin Balsam & Dyan Cannon & Ralph Meeker Val Avery & Dick Anthony Williams & Garrett Morris et al, director Sidney Lumet, Duke
Do you like being married? Does it work for you? I can’t see it working for me. I never felt the urge, you know. A lot of great looking women in the world. I never met one, made me want to give up all the others. Sure you can fuck around, but it’s so much damn work, keepin’ it quiet. It’s not worth the effort. A History of Violence 2005 starring Viggo Mortensen & Maria Bello & Ed Harris & William Hurt & Ashton Holmes & Peter MacNeill & Stephen McHattie & Greg Bryk & Kyle Schmid & Sumela Kay et al, director David Cronenberg, Richie
I want to marry you more than anything else in the world. Only you’re … A Kiss Before Dying 1956 starring Robert Wagner & Jeffrey Hunter & Virginia Leith & Joanne Woodward & Mary Astor & George Macready & Robert Quarry & Howard Petrie et al, director Gerd Oswald, him to her
I’ve been married to my Walt that long and I swear in all that time I just lie there thinking about my canning. The Night of the Hunter 1955 starring Robert Mitchum & Shelley Winters & Lillian Gish & James Gleason & Evelyn Varden & Billy Chapin & Peter Graves & Sally Jane Bruce & Don Beddoe et al, director Charles Laughton, old lady
Sometimes when they get married they start making timetables you know. Hell is a City 1960 starring Stanley Baker & John Crawford & Donald Pleasence & Maxine Audley & Billie Whitelaw & Joseph Tomlty & George A Cooper & Vanda Godsell et al, director Val Guest, Baker
He was married once but that was a long time ago. Licence to Kill 1989 starring Timothy Dalton & Benicio del Toro & Carey Lowell & Robert Davi & Talisa Soto & Anthony Zerbe & Everett McGill & Desmond Llewelyn & Robert Brown & Caroline Bliss & Don Shroud et al, director John Glen, Felix to bride
Is marriage synonymous with deception? Cape Fear 1991 starring Robert De Niro & Nick Nolte & Jessica Lang & Joe Don Baker & Robert Mitchum & Juliette Lewis & Gregory Peck & Martin Balsam & Fred Delta Thompson & Illeana Douglas et al, director Martin Scorsese, her to him
Just because you're married doesn’t mean you stop looking at women. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e13: Armageddon Game s2e13, O’Brien to Bashir
You humans, you never learn. You let your women go out in public, hold jobs, wear clothing, and you wonder why your marriages fall apart. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e10: Fascination, Quark
Given the volatile nature of their relationship one might have predicted homicide rather than matrimony. Star Trek: Voyager s5e18: Oblivion, Seven of Nine to Doctor
By marrying, one limits one’s romantic interactions to a single individual – a circumstance that implies extreme monotony. ibid. Seven of Nine to B’Elanna
What the devil did I tie that knot for? Waterloo Road 1944 starring John Mills & Stewart Granger & Alastair Sim & Joy Shelton & Alison Leggatt & Leslie Bradley & George Carney & Jean Kent & Anna Konstam & Vera Frances & Ben Williams et al, director Sidney Gilliat, opening scene
Carrying on with a chap like that and Jim away in the army! ibid. war bird to war bird
I’ve got to find Tillie before they catch up with me again. ibid. Jim
Hitler married Eva Braun ... to the thunder of the Russian artillery. Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, Traudl Junge, 2002
Marriages between Jews and Germans of German or related blood are forbidden. Hermann Goering
It was only a matter of time before the Saxons were back on English soil ... The Anglo-Saxons were pagan. Bettany Hughes, Seven Ages of Britain 410 A.D.–1066 A.D., Channel 4 2003
For better or worse the institution of marriage had arrived. ibid.
All marriage is such a lottery – the happiness is always an exchange – though it may be a very happy one – still the poor woman is bodily and morally the husband’s slave. That always sticks in my throat. When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage. Queen Victoria
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria
You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat. Mike Tyson
90% of marriages end on money problems. Dave Ramsey
We’ve only been married nearly three years but we’re always having rows, aren’t we? Play for Today: Abigail’s Party, written and directed Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman ***** Angela, BBC 1977
Don’t get me wrong. I do love Laurence. In my own way. ibid. Beverly to Angela, with Sue & Tony
I never thought anyone would marry me. ibid. Angela
Beverly: Apart from that, it’s just boring, do you know what I mean?
Angela: I think that comes from being married though doesn’t it? The fun wears off. ibid.
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly; I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony. Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ibid.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. ibid.
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage has always been her object. ibid.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. ibid.
Oh, Lizzy! I’d do anything rather than marry without affection. ibid.
To be so bent on marriage, to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation, is a sort of thing that shocks me. Jane Austen, The Watsons, 1804
I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like. ibid.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor – which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony. Jane Austen, letter to Fanny Knight 13th March 1817
Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
Never criticise your spouse’s faults; if it weren’t for them, your mate might have found someone better than you. Jay Trachman
Marry in haste repent at leisure. Late 16th century proverb
We need hardly see each other except when marital duties call. The Borgias s1e5: The Borgias in Love, Lucretia, Showtime 2011
Lucrezia: What do you know of marriage, Francesca?
Francesca: I know, my lady, it should not be thus. ibid.