Quotes About Being Engaged To Be Married

#1. I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. But he wrote me a letter. It led to our being engaged to be married.

Charles Dickens

#2. An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Play always as if in the presence of a master.

Robert Schumann

#4. Michel and Annette Muller's mother, snatched from her children at Beaune-la-Rolande, died at Auschwitz. And while it was the Nazis who wished her dead, it was the French who put her in harm's way.

Laurence Rees

#5. But I didn't say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have a distinct remembrance of being married, but I have no recollection at all of being engaged. I am inclined to think that I never was engaged.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Life is fair; that's what's so unfair about it.

Kelly E. Lindner

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Jenna Morasca

#8. I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

Tod Machover

#9. Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

Salman Rushdie

#10. I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

George Eliot

#11. For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

Max Greenfield

#12. I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

Cliff Martinez

#13. If you're a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It's like being engaged and never getting married. It's miserable.

Matt Chandler

#14. Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

Wayne Dyer

#15. No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

Ethel Waters

#16. Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

Elizabeth Hand

#17. It's hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsense
has been serving us so well

E.J. Patten

#18. I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

George Eliot

#20. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

Oscar Wilde

#21. That will get you fucked in a hurry, Love.

R.K. Lilley