Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Divorce.
You never know how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Gerald F. Lieberman
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars
Mark Simpson
People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.
John Cheever
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot
Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Edward George BulwerLytton
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.
Plutarch
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Thomas Fuller
We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we couldTil our love was lov'd out in us both;But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled:'Twas pleasure that made it an oath.
John Dryden, Marriage
When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
Deng MingDao
The reason of this separation has not come to our knowledge; but there seems to be a truth conveyed in the account of another Roman's being divorced from his wife, which may be applicable here. This person being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? was she not fair? was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them, Whether it was not new? and well made? Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.
Plutarch, AEMILIUS PAULUS transl
