Quote by William Congreve
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull

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

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He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. – Michel de Montaigne, “Upon Some Verses of Virgil”

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. – Soren Kierkegaard

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I couldnt bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. – Clive Owen

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