Sloane Crosley Quotes

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

In all my fantasies, I always assumed I would get married and have six children along the way with the greatest of ease.

I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of planning a wedding and buying bridal magazines and imagining things and setting up who would play what role? No. Because as I grew up, I started to believe that I would be one of those gals that never got married.

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

There were many years when I didn't even know if I wanted to get married. I don't know if I believe in that institution, really.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

I got married, and it was a bit of a whirlwind I wasn't expecting for the next phase for Penn and I.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

The good thing about being gay, though, I always believed, is that you didn't make anyone go to a wedding. Nobody wants to go to a wedding. Nobody. It kind of bothers me now that you have to go to gay weddings, too. I don't care. It's still a wedding. And I would give anybody double gifts if they would elope.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.