Classic Quotes about Marriage by Eileen Chang

If marriage is for subsistence, then marriage is long-term prostitution.

--Eileen Chang

Love--Eileen Chang--Like

You must come to be my best man on the day of our wedding, because we promised to walk into the marriage hall together.

- Eileen Chang

Sentimental - Sadness - Love - Disappointment

At all you think marriage is a long term prostitution.

--Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang-Woman-Love

Marriage is a keyboard, too much order and rules; love is a mouse, a little bit of it, men compare themselves to the mainframe, the memory is the most important; the woman is like a monitor, everything is visible.

--Eileen Chang

Warmth-Love-Feelings-Emotions

Will you suddenly appear, in the coffee shop on the corner, I will bring a smile, and pleasantries, not to go to say once upon a time, but just pleasantries, and to say to you, just to say, it's been a long time.

--Eileen Chang

Love-Breakup-Youth-Mood

If getting married is for making a living, then marriage is long-term prostitution.

--Eileen Chang

Love

Only the man has the right to ask for his hand in marriage--as long as this institution exists, marriage cannot be a fair exchange; and the woman lifts up without moving to say that in the first place she "allowed his request," and thus gained the upper hand in the quarrel, for which reason the woman insisted that it should be the man who should propose.

-- Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang - Woman

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