Quotes About Matchmaking

The world would be a much happier place if people would just listen to me before they up and got married," she added. "I could have the entire Marriage Mart matched up in a week.

Good God, you don't think I'm trying to pair you off with Daphne, do you?" Simon said nothing. "You would never suit. You're a bit too brooding for her tastes.

Hyacinth generally bore her mother's matchmaking with good humor since, as she had told Penelope, it wasn't as if she didn't want to get married eventually. Might as well let her mother do all the work and then she could choose a husband when the right one presented himself.

There's a legend...that says all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord. The matchmaking gods tie that cord around their ankles at birth, and in time the gods pull those cords tighter and tighter. Slowly, slowly, over the next twenty or thirty or forty years, they draw the couple toward each other until they meet.

I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.

I've had my fair share of tweets, DMs, emails, Facebook Messages and friends trying to set me up with friends.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.

I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

God this request isn't for me it's for my mom. . . . Could you send her a son-in-law?

The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.

Wait, you mean she's trying to get you and me together? No, she can't be serious." "I'm afraid so. Once she and Dad return from their trip to Spain I'll break the tragic news that sadly you and I were not to be." "You can say that again. Never. Not in a million years." Ward's dark brows rose. "My mother believes I'm a catch." "A flaw common to many fond mothers, I'm sure.

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The shadkhn was impressing the young woman with the boundless virtues of a female and ended: "And to look at, she's a regular picture!" The young man could not wait for his blind date. But when he accosted the shadkhn the next day, his voice was frosty: "Her eyes are crossed, her nose is crooked, and when she smiles one side of her mouth goes down—" "Just a minute," interrupted the shadkhn. "Is it my fault you don't like Picasso?

It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together.

Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.

She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object. I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good. But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home.

And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'' I thank you for my share of the favour,'' said Elizabeth, But I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.

A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference." "Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.

My dear Mr. Bennet, replied his wife, how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.

I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'

The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking