Betrothal Quotes

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

There is no chance of my marrying Princess Margaret.

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.

I look upon Salman as an elder brother and want him to tie the knot first. Once he does that, I will settle down too.

I have been proposed to a few times. I haven't counted how many, a little bit more than one hand?

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.

I didn't want to get married.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.