"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband" — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Source: Emma (1815)

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

Source: Letter to Harriot Washington (Oct. 30, 1791)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quote