Secret Marriage

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or marriage:

    “This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)