“[Matrimony] is the grave of love.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

“Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.”

“Domestic and matrimonial issues, which have been on the rise for a long time, will decrease if husbands and wives treat each other with love and respect and focus upon the demands of their faith.”

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.”

“No one can claim to have mastered love, not even in the grave.”

“What was important, now, with her eyes bent upon him, and the shadow of a branch trembling across her breast, was the immemorial game of love: no less a game for being grave. No less grave for being wild. Grave as a great green sky. Grave as a surgeon’s knife.”

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”