Jared Harris Quotes

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

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.

I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

In the Ukraine, contrary to the custom of all other nations, the husbands do not choose their wives, but are themselves chosen by their future consorts.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

Un-Arrange a Marriage … Re-Arrange a Life

Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it's a partnership. It's not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.

As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.