To Be Married Quotes

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
- John Lennon

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.
- Gregg Allman

Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.
- Peter Andre

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
- Francesca Annis

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.
- Julia Quinn

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
- Lauren Bacall

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
- Scott Bakula

GWENDOLEN
An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.
- Oscar Wilde

GWENDOLEN
I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.
- Oscar Wilde

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
- Ernie Banks

what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
- Mary Ann Shaffer

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
- Mary Ann Shaffer

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
- Anne Sexton

What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.
- E M Forster

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married
It is an honor that I dream not of
- William Shakespeare

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
- Lord Byron

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
- Jimmy Carter

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.
- Kenny Chesney

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years.
They just want to hold your hand.
- Rachel Cohn

There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.
- Virginia Woolf

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
- Anne Dudley

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
- Mike Epps

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.
- Megan Fox

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
- Greta Garbo

This is one of the hardest industries to be married.
- Markpaul Gosselaar

The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married in June. It is no little decision for me - for the first time in my life I have my own lands in my own hands as a widow; once I become a wife everything becomes Lord Stanley's property. I have to struggle to reserve what I can from the law that rules that a wife has no rights, and I keep what I can, but I know that I am choosing my master.
- Philippa Gregory

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.
- Jon Hamm

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
- Ethan Hawke

We were engaged. Not to be married, but in combat. So same thing.
- Jarod Kintz

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.
- Mindy Kaling

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
- Mindy Kaling

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
- John Keats

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
- Grace Kelly

I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.
- Moira Kelly

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
- Anna Kendrick

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
- Nicole Kidman

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
- Chuck Klosterman

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
- Jhumpa Lahiri

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
- Burt Lancaster

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
- Ann Landers

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.
- Ali Larter

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
- Loretta Lynn

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.
- Ian Mcewan

Did he happen to select a color too?"
"Blue."
"Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white.
Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said"
Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.
- Judith Mcnaught

I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.
- Eva Mendes

It's commonly believed that there's less pressure on a woman to be married these days than there used to be. If that's true, if things are better now than they were before, then they once must have been very bad indeed.
- Sarah Miller

I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be married.
- Chad Michael Murray

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
- Azar Nafisi

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.
- Stevie Nicks

I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore.
- Cynthia Nixon

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
- Harold Ramis

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days."
The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah."
"If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.
- J D Robb

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
- Dan Savage

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
- Nina Simone

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.
- Tori Spelling

Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?
- Scylar Tyberius

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
- Kerry Washington

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.
- Rita Wilson

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.
- Debra Winger

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
- Joanne Woodward