Quote#Love
Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and…
Quote byGeorge Moore · 1852–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Confessions of a Young Man (1886), Ch. 9..
English (original)
Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife — you know all about her — who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?
— George Moore
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