The Engagement Ring Quotes

#1. Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

Bob Phillips

#2. A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.

Steve Trotter

#4. There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

#5. I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Emma Watson

#6. First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring ... soon after ... comes Suffer ... ring!

Jay Leno

#7. The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

Audrey Niffenegger

#8. I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

Rajneesh

#9. The gentle Kathryn thumps the engagement ring in his face, thumps it as you'd thump a spider

Ben Fountain

#10. It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

Prince William

#11. My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Elizabeth Taylor

#12. The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.

Heather Chapple

#13. There was, she noticed, a fragment of frozen pea caught in the setting of her engagement ring.

Robert Galbraith

#14. Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

Sophie Kinsella

#15. I bet you didn't have to say a word. I bet those rings were all Ty. Which makes you the only female on the planet who didn't have to give her man some instruction when it came to an engagement ring," Krystal noted correctly and I looked down at her. "He may drink beer but that boy is pure champagne.

Kristen Ashley

#16. For the love of God, Hanna, where are you?" he yelled.
Across the room she lowered her fruity drink, held up her hand decorated with a beautiful engagement ring, and called out, "Is that what this ring means? That I come to your rescue?"
He nodded fervently, shouting, "Yes!

Christina Lauren

#17. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.

Rosamund Lupton

#18. The biggest lie a girl will ever tell you is that the size or authenticity of an engagement ring doesn't matter to her. The truth is that the worth of a woman could be defined by her engagement ring.

David Bowick

#19. The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Jessica Valenti

#20. A fake ring. A fake engagement. Fake love. Everything was fake. Shiny and put together on the outside, empty on the inside.

Jamie Farrell

#21. The Spirit is like God's engagement ring saying to us, "This promise is only the beginning. You have no idea how much I will bless you. There is a wedding feast coming to you that you wouldn't believe. But I've given you my Spirit so you will believe that it is coming.

Kevin DeYoung

#22. Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer?
Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#23. Mallory asked sympathetically, reaching for the syrup, her engagement ring catching the light.
Amy shielded her eyes. "Jeez, Mallory, stop waving that thing around - you're going to blind us. Couldn't Ty have found one smaller than a third world country? Or less sparkyly?

Jill Shalvis

#24. Diamonds aren't forever. Diamond engagement rings have only been a "necessary luxury" for about eighty years. We take the tradition of a diamond engagement ring for granted, as if it were as old as marriage itself. It's not. In fact, it's only about as old as the microwave oven.

Aja Raden

#25. Calm down, it isn't a ring I laughed and he pushed the box across the table to me and I blushed and opened it.

Mercy Cortez

#26. Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
and holding them, clicking them
in thumb and forefinger,
the indent of twenty-five years,
like a tiny rip leaving its mark ...

Anne Sexton

#27. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.

Carlos Wallace

#28. I pointed to her engagement ring. "I don't know who the idiot is, but I hope he knows he's the luckiest man in the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#29. Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?

Linda Howard

#30. One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

Georgina Chapman

#31. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

Erik Larson