Marrying Him Quotes

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  Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

  Cher

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

  Emily Bronte

  Fire, Soul, Lightning

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Soulmate, I Love Him, Handsome

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Marriage, Money

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.195, Transaction Publishers

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• I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Marriage, Sometimes

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• What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Girl, Sex

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wedding, Men, Ifs

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• If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Curves

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• God I loved Sammy. I’d considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Wife, Upset

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Marriage, Thinking, Ends

  Robin Jones Gunn (2000). “As You Wish”, p.24, Bethany House

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• A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Voice, Tangled, Missing

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• I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

  Annie Dillard

  Flirting, Men, Doe

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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