Family Quote by Erasmus Darwin

“Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Compounding lack of funds with intelligence, she makes herself unmarriageable.”

— Helen Simonson

“There may be nothing in the world so dangerous as a wealthy woman with good intentions.”

— Lloyd Mullins

“No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and…

— Judith McNaught

“One disastrous marriage in this family is aplenty.”

— Catherine Anderson

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”

— Julia Quinn

“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.”

— Vikas Swarup

“Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe”

— Ursula Hegi

“The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.”

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“That is just what I should like to marry. A thoroughly sensible wife would reduce me to a condition of absolute idiocy in less…

— Oscar Wilde

“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against…

— Michael Chabon

“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