Marriage Alliance Quotes

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.

Almost alone among barbarians they are content with one wife, except a very few among them, and these not from sensuality, but because their noble birth procures for them many offers of alliance. The wife does not bring a dower to the husband, but the husband to the wife

Chinese society is organised around the family unit.

From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers … In due course, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumors of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?