It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.” – Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. – Mary Augusta Ward

Im also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed. – Alain de Botton