"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."

Marriage, Time, Church, England

30

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."

Exlpore more Marriage quotes

"The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Marriage, Conflict, Focus, Love

"Husband: a former boyfriend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Marriage, Husband, Boyfriend, Life

"You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Marriage, Imagination, Love, Perception

"I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Marriage, War, Politics, Strategy

"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman."

George W. Bush, American President

Marriage, Man, Woman

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Marriage, Wisdom, Happiness, Life

"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Marriage, Union, Love, Partnership

"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."

Raquel Welch, American Actress

Marriage, Love, Dream, Childhood

"I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Marriage, Love, Mistake, Emotion

"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

Marriage, Earth, Fool

Explore more quotes by Kate Adie

"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

Fiction

"I will never retire."

Will

"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"

Danger

"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."

Life

"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."

War

"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

Democracy

"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

Time

"I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama."

Family

"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."

Care

"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."

Life