Quotes About Engagement

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won't you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

I didn't say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

The only interesting thing is to live.

A book is completed only when its finished by a reader.

Dimmi e dimenticherò. Mostrami e ricorderò. Coinvolgimi e capirò.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.

If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand.

To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

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It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

I know all the people I want to know.

He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

It aint of a sexual nature is it? No. That's all right. Go ahead and tell it anyways.

Her eyes above the shoulder of her partner swept across him where he stood.

the only thing worse than losing is not playing. I