Damsel Quote by Emily Dickinson

“Isn't it sad that a man of no significance like this marriage clerk should impede the progress of your life? But a lowly worm…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the…

— Howard Pyle

“Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.”

— Mark Helprin

“This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love…

— Heidi Baker

“Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.”

— William Shakespeare

“Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”

— Marcel Proust

“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our…

— C.S. Lewis

“Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“We cannot prove the contrary, to be sure—but I wish you a better fate Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man…

— Jane Austen