Quotes About Arranged Marriage

#1. It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.

Tom Papa

#2. Every author should have fallen in love at least once...and I am not talking about arranged marriage love

Shikha Kaul

#3. My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fay Weldon

#5. There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

#6. I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.

Nelson Mandela

#7. At least if it is an arranged marriage, you can fault your parents, otherwise you will have only yourself to blame. And, believe me, it is always harder to bear something if you cannot blame somebody else for it. -Mr. Ali-

Farahad Zama

#8. A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

Jason Flemyng

#9. I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Ranbir Kapoor

#10. Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing ... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with,' [said the Doctor]

James Goss

#11. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.

Padma Lakshmi

#12. What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

Terrence Rafferty

#13. Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

Siddharth Katragadda

#14. It's time to undo Rahim.

Nadia Hashimi

#15. Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, the only tool she might use to make me a woman is her tongue -- and it is far too sharp for me to allow it beneath my skirts.

Libbie Hawker

#16. Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nicolas Chamfort

#17. Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

Manju Kapur

#18. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

Ruth Ahmed

#19. Okay, okay. I can do this, I can do this just breathe. Mentally I prepared myself but it didn't help with the feeling of jumping off a cliff deep in my belly.

A.J. Young

#20. In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.

Agatha Christie

#21. Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

Susanna Clarke

#22. I would separate marriages into rational and irrational and I would included both love and arranged marriages as irrational marriage.
Rational marriage for me is when you can really understand by mind not by heart.

M.F. Moonzajer

#23. I couldn't help but think of Al's pre-ordained betrothal to Billo and of how hard the match-makers had worked to find the girl beautiful enough to match this extraordinary man - this extraordinary man of mine.

Ruth Ahmed

#24. In Song of Songs we are introduced to a new problem for Abishag: Solomon was choosing wives for political advantages, while she was wasting away in Zion
without children.
pg xxiv

Michael Ben Zehabe

#25. Mark my words, Lila. You'll be mine in all ways you can imagine.

Stephanie Witter

#26. Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.

Kay Honeyman

#27. Sometimes a kiss was just a kiss.
Sometimes a kiss announced changes.
That time the kiss was my downfall.

Stephanie Witter

#28. I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

Salman Rushdie

#29. I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

Chetan Bhagat

#30. We're supposed to be unable to keep our hands off of each other. We're supposed to tear each other's clothes off. I'm supposed to make you scream again and again all night long, Lila.

Stephanie Witter

#31. What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.

Stephanie Witter

#32. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

Nayomi Munaweera

#33. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#34. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Laurence Housman

#35. Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.

Dan Jones

#36. I was to be a bride, but whose? Councilor Branwick had assured me that the Council of Citizens would let me know the moment they decided.

Lea Carter

#37. Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.

Eloisa James

#38. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

Maggie O'Farrell