{"quotes":[{"text":"The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.","author":"A. P. Herbert","tags":["period","matrimony","critical "],"id":15925,"author_id":"A.+P.+Herbert"},{"text":"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["love","marriage","matrimony","relationships","soulmates","till-death-do-its-part"],"id":17211,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["charlotte-bronte","death","edward-fairfax-rochester","honeymoon","jane-eyre","life","marriage","matrimony"],"id":17579,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["affection","duty","feelings","integrity","joy","love","marriage","matrimony","romance","self-determination"],"id":20846,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["independence","intelligence","irritability","marriage","matrimony","recklessness"],"id":21398,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-proverb","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","husband","husbands","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","marriage","marriage-life","matrimony","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","wedding","wife","wives"],"id":32713,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["marriage","matrimony"],"id":36141,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["battle","bed-of-roses","love","marriage","matrimony","war"],"id":36948,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["devotion","hypocrisy","matrimony"],"id":37125,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["choice","courtship","discord","disharmony","empowerment","gender","inequality","irony","love","marriage","matrimony","sarcasm","storytelling","subjection","women"],"id":37884,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}