Quotes About Suitors

She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.

men wanted to marry the ranch, not me." "You're a rich young woman who also happens to be beautiful. You'll be able to take your pick of the young men around here." She laughed softly. "Oh, you're right. One of the suitors was nearly fifty, the other one had been divorced and the third one was a bank clerk who already had one wife he didn't mention over in Pendleton.

If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes," the king said. "I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone .

There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

He still didn't think I was good enough for you. No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.

[Of two suitors for his daughter's hand:] I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.

Suitable guys are an endangered species

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

But it is very likely that hemay fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me." Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.

Am I so desperate I must accept any gentleman who is not a villain or a gargoyle?

Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn't have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn't even bring a spade.

Christopher felt a smile -his first genuine smile in a long time- pulling at his lips. "Does Miss Hathaway have many suitors?" "Oh, yes. But none of them want to marry her." "Why is that, do you imagine?" "They don't want to get shot," the child said, shrugging. "Pardon?" Christopher's brows lifted. "Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love," the boy explained.

If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.

Have you ever courted anyone, Cousin West?" Pandora asked. "Only if I was certain the lady was too intelligent ever to accept me.

Escort Mr. Ravenel up to my private apartments, where it seems I'll be giving counsel to yet another of my daughter's tormented suitors. This must be a penance for my misspent youth.

You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books.

If you knew the trouble we've had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We've had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.

We were silent a moment. 'So, which of the suitors would you have picked?' I shoved him, and he laughed

Helen's former suitors had honored their vow, and Agamemnon's army was rich with princely blood. It was said that he had done what no man before him could: united our fractious kingdoms with common cause.

Tyrannical fathers, oppressed daughters, and repugnant suitors are scattered throughout English history.

It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.