21 Metaphors for divorce

"Divorce is a guidepost marked, 'Hell to Heaven,' but lots of folks miss the way, just the same, I notice," spoke up somebody with a chuckle.

Divorce was the inevitable product of the time.

A divorce, of course, is always a divorce; there is no getting away from that, or from mine.

Divorce may simply be a symptom, not a disease; a revolt against unjust conditions; and the way to do away with divorce or reduce the frequency of it is to remedy the evil social conditions which, in a great many instances, are responsible.

"A divorce is a jump in the dark," said another.

To get the divorce was a very easy matter there in the West, and the governor was now free to marry again.

The reader is to bear in mind, that the age of chivalry took delight in mooting points of love and friendship, such as in after-times would have been out of the question; and that the parties in this story are Mahometans, with whom divorce was an easy thing, and caused no scandal.

"A divorce is the comedy of the rich and the tragedy of the poor," said a little man who wore glasses.

To me a divorce is not a disgrace, but a family row is.

"Divorce is a coward's retreat from the battle of life."

Divorce, childless families, irreverent children, and a decadence of the old type of separate home life are signs of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes.

Divorce as it exists at present is not a readjustment but a revenge.

Divorce is a sequel to marriage, and a change in the divorce law is essentially a change in the marriage law.

"Divorce is a nice smushy poultice that may help but won't heal," cut in a new voice.

Her New York friends were at no pains to conceal from her that in their opinion her divorce had been a blunder.

Divorce is only an expedient, and if I may be allowed to use the word, an Orleanist expedient!"

Well, as near as I can remember it was like this: "A divorce is a knife that cuts a knot that hadn't ought to ever been tied," said one.

Divorce may simply be a symptom, not a disease; a revolt against unjust conditions; and the way to do away with divorce or reduce the frequency of it is to remedy the evil social conditions which, in a great many instances, are responsible.

It was one day when I was in there buying some white thread for Nurse Sarah, and it was a little while after I had asked the doctor if a divorce was a disease.

Let divorce be anathema; curse it; curse this accursed thing, divorce; curse it, curse it!

Well," he remarked, stretching his legs and yawning, "divorce is sure an evil.

21 Metaphors for  divorce