Quotes About Engagement

It's double-action: You've got to cock it before you can fire.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons. I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

The breathless idyl of their engagement gave way, first, to the intense romance of the more passionate relationship. The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day it and it was gone, how, they scarcely knew. Had either of them lost the other in the days of the idyl, the love lost would have been ever to the loser that dim desire without fulfillment which stands back of all life. But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end.

Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.

He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.

A lonesome town, though. He who had grown up alone had lately learned to avoid solitude. During the past several months he had been careful, when he had no engagement for the evening, to hurry to one of his clubs and find someone. Oh there was a loneliness here--

He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

His eyes were of a bright, hard blue. His nose was somewhat pointed and there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking - and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? - glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

Mais comment faites-vous pour y vivre seul? — Je m'arrange pour qu'elle soit pleine de monde, jour et nuit. Pleine de gens intéressants. Qui font des choses intéressantes.

as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested - interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

You don't have to dance—just get out there on the floor and shake.

When I meet a man that doesn't bore me to death after two weeks, perhaps it'll be different.

She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.

Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored for even a minute.

What, then, is the best course for the real experts? To help the public understand how their field works, in particular how science works.

When you teleconference, you are spending social capital rather than building it.