Quotes About Matrimony

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

I am not interested in anyone and will let my mother decide about my marriage.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony... Quote from a Jane Austen Letter 13 March, 1817

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

I felt honored to witness the shrine in which the peerless master had condescended to play the human drama of matrimony.

As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Well, Killick, I trust you are not rushing into matrimony without due consideration? Matrimony is a very serious thing.' 'Oh no, sir. I considered of it: I considered of it, why, the best part of twenty minutes. There was three to choose on, and this here Ã¢â'¬â€œÃ¢â'¬â"¢ looking fondly at his purchase – 'was the pick of the bunch.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.

Oh! To rationalize oneself into matrimony...Oh! To decide something so grave in life 'after mature consideration'! Choose the color of a dress after a thousand hesitations, but for God's sake, get married without reflecting on it! That's the grace I wish I wish for you. May you even be so distracted that day that you walk past the registry office without remembering to stop there.

there's a difference between marrying and being married.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

Matrimony and monogamy have forever been linked with property and inheritance, the nuclear family, in the West, having been decided upon through trial and error as the most effective unit for preservation of both. In

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.