I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

I suppose after 'Four Weddings' I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, 'I'm burning to be an actor. If I don't act, I'm not alive.' I've never had that.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

“I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.”

“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."

“Every woman should marry ... and no man.”

“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side