Brides Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image ““ Bride , n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brides Happiness Marriage Wedding
“Brides never fare well in stories. Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.” — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
“Rather than envy, anticipation, or joy, what I feel when I look at the bride is a shortness of breath. I hear the echo… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
“The bride will keep her name and, after considerable negotiation, the groom will, too.” — Meg Waite Clayton Copy Share Image
“...and the joy on the bride's and groom's faces at the unquestioned beauty of a minute-old marriage.” — Stephanie Oakes Copy Share Image
“And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Although a graduate of the University of California the bride is nonetheless an extremely attractive young woman.” — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
“When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“We are to save ourselves for the Bridegroom, as a bride saves herself for her husband.” — James M. Hamilton Jr Copy Share Image
“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“That's it for me. I'm fucked. As per usual. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Although come to think of it I was never… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable." I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I'k just swallowed. If… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Oh, they'll never believe a woman could solve such puzzles. They'll just assume I'm humoring you by editing it myself and allowing you to… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
