Marriage Conflict Quotes

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

I'd sue the bottom off my husband if he dared to put me in one of his films, and he knows that.

I won't sleep until I have resolved an issue with my husband.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.