Quotes About Marriage

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.

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?

Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

Haz cualquier cosa menos casarte sin amor. ¿Estás absolutamente segura de que sientes lo que debe sentirse?

Mr. Darcy who took her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without knowing what she did, she accepted him.

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming—one

Men of sense do not want silly wives.

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband as it had once been to Willoughby.

I admire all my three sons-in-law highly, said he. Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

My dear, replied her husband, I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

Djevoja?ka je mašta vrlo brza. Za tren oka sko?i od naklonosti do ljubavi, od ljubavi do braka.

It is truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large fortune is in want of a wife!

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

My mother looks forward with as much certainty as you can do to our keeping two maids; my father is the only one not in the secret. We plan having a steady cook and a young giddy housemaid, with a sedate, middle-aged man, who is to undertake the double office of husband to the former and sweetheart to the latter. No children of course to be allowed on either side.

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.

marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

El hecho de que Lady Russell, de muy buena edad y agradable carácter, y en circunstancias ideales para ello, no hubiese querido pensar en segundas nupcias, no tiene por qué ser explicado al público, que está tan dispuesto a sentirse irracionalmente descontento cuando una mujer no se vuelve a casar.

No creo que ninguna de mis hijas vaya a incomodar al señor Willoughby con intentos de atraparlo. No es una ocupación para la que hayan sido criadas. Los hombres están muy a salvo con nosotras, sin importar cuán ricos sean.

As regularly as I can. But you recognize married ladies have never tons time for writing. My sisters can also write to me. They will have nothing else to do.

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.