Quotes About Engagement

the people who used to ask, "Is it news?" now seem to be asking, "Will it stimulate?" And the change is felt, high and low, throughout the culture.

Mentre [il lettore] legge, la sua esistenza si accorcia. La sua lettura è un anello nella catena di continuità nella rappresentazione del testo che sottoscrive la sopravvivenza del testo letto.

We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you.

They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off.

When my time is up," I would tell friends, "my dance card is going to be full.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.      My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Il faut vouloir vivre les grands problèmes, par le corps et par l'esprit

Maigret never took notes. If he had a propelling pencil in his hand and a paper in front of him, it was only to make doodles that had no connection with the case.

Everyone was watching Maigret. Children followed him, one of them imitating his heavy gait.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel! No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time? Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris.

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

Horatia said eagerly: Oh, you will take m-me instead? No, said Rule, with a faint smile. I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child. B-but it is! said Horatia vigorously. One of us m-must marry you!

Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.

I know it, and I wanted so much not to drag you into it!' said Kitty remorsefully. 'I thought, if only you knew nothing about it, it would serve as a reason for you to put an end to our engagement!' 'Yes, I know you did. Told me so, in that letter you wrote me. Dashed cork-brained notion! Stands to reason if you're in it I must be too.

They dined early, and as soon as the meal was over Margaret went up to change into the frock she had worn on the previous evening. With a praiseworthy attention to detail she made her hair look tousled, and wiped all the powder off her face. As Charles remarked, in a newly engaged girl this deed almost amounted to heroism.

She said despairingly: 'I see that I might as well address myself to a gate-post!' 'What very odd things you seem to talk to!' he remarked. 'Do you find gate-posts less responsive than eels?

It is customary, you know, to exchange polite conversation during the dance. I have now addressed no fewer than three unexceptionable remarks to you without winning one answer!

I hardly dare open my mouth, drawled Gideon, but there is much in what he says, Gaywood. I don't reckon myself a mean shot, but I would think twice before I engaged in pistol-play with Sale. And you won't hit him you know. He is such a little fellow, and you are such a damnably bad shot!

Very bad business,' said Mr Wychbold. 'Nothing to be done, though.' 'That,' said Sophy severely, 'is what people always say when they are too lazy, or perhaps too timorous, to make a push to be helpful!

There is little likelihood of gaining my consent to your marriage with anyone whom I can at the moment call to mind.' 'Except,' said Miss Taverner through her teeth, 'yourself!' 'Except, of course, myself,' he agreed suavely. 'And do you suppose, Lord Worth, that there is any great likelihood of my marrying you?' inquired Judith in a sleek, deceptive voice. He raised his brows. 'Until I ask you to marry me, Miss Taverner, not the least likelihood,' he replied gently.

What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner. Who is she?' 'Miss Wraxton: Charles is betrothed to her, and Mama sent to warn me a few minutes ago that she is dining here tonight. We had all of us forgotten it in the bustle of your arrival.

The Lanyons had their heads together over a book of pictures, Venetia on the floor beside the sofa, and Aubrey explaining them to her, and the pair of them looking up every now and then at his lordship and pelting