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engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is
satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she
may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe
with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
-- Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of
a man in pursuit of happiness.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming,
drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily
quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
-- John Gay
1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved;
no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one
another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the
remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to
marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent
before marriage.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become
engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit
him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a
young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may
be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for
herself.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
