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Quotes About Suitors

And through the initiation by the three goddesses who were slighted in the beginning by the Judgment of Paris, he is made ready to return home to his wife, Penelope, and rescue her from the suitors.
~ Joseph Campbell
Mother," Hyacinth said, pausing for slightly longer than normal to steal a bit of time to organize her thoughts, "I am not going to chase after Mr. St. Clair. He's not at all the right sort of man for me." "I'm not certain you'd know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant." "I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.
~ Julia Quinn
Men go after me, and I choose among them.
~ Bess Myerson
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.
~ Gorgias
Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc
~ Edward Rutherfurd
The suitors: a hundred of the greediest, evilest cut-throats who'd ever lived.
~ Rick Riordan
Multiple discovery even happens in romantic relationships. Nobody's been interested in you for years and years, and suddenly you have two suitors at the same time? That's multiple discovery, indeed!
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry? This one. She squeezed [his] arm. The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. Doesnt look that much different from the other one. Nevertheless- she fought to remain sober-faced- this is the man I want.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
I was beautiful, or so my father told me. My oval mirror showed me a face with nothing written on it. I had suitors aplenty but wanted none of them: their doggish devotion seemed too easily won. I had an appetite for magic, even then. I wanted something improbably and perfect as a red rose just opening.
~ Emma Donoghue
Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she's going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I'd rather just have one in his right mind.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.
~ Libba Bray
She had, or might have had, many suitors in her own rank of life, but scornfully repulsed or rejected them all; for none but a gentleman could please her refined taste, and none but a rich one could satisfy her soaring ambition.
~ Anne Bronte
Samarkar wondered at what point in a relationship it was appropriate to threaten to break a suitor's kneecaps if he should prove insufficiently respectful of one's friend. The
~ Elizabeth Bear
Mr. St. Maur will help me make a most excellent match. Perhaps you should retain him as well." Minerva shook her head at the pair of them. "A man will have to fall out of the sky and into my bedroom before I marry him.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil.
~ balzac honore de xi
You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.
~ Georgette Heyer
Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?
~ Georgette Heyer
Don't waste a thought on any of the eligible suitors you've found for me, dear ma'am! There is more of mama in me than you have the least idea of, and the only eligible husband for me is a rake!
~ Georgette Heyer
You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.
~ Georgette Heyer
She has that tough little rich girl look, the look that says to suitors: My heart belongs to Daddy, the son of a bitch.
~ Evan Eisenberg
He is asking Caroline to produce a list," Georgina explained. "What sort of list?" Finchley asked. "A list of women to marry," Hugh said feeling as if his idea had been a stupid one. Now even Finchbird would take the piss out of him as well. "I find that one wife is more than enough," his brother-in-law said grinning.
~ Julia Quinn
It is becoming quite irksome, this stubbornness of hers about marrying. Suitors do appear occasionally, men eager to marry her, but she will have nothing to do with any of them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she picked the worst of the lot in the end; as an old Thai saying goes, she who has one chance to walk the length of the garden in search of the perfect rose may have to pick in haste from the last bush.
~ Botan
You suitors who plague my mother, you, you insolent, overweening . . .
~ Homer
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
~ Karen Abbott