Books Quote by Joanna Trollope

“No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.”

— Judith James

“He never married. But he wrote a good book.”

— George MacDonald

“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

“She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I’d ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was…

— Lorraine Heath

“She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the…

— John Fowles

“Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person…

— Donna Leon

“I never wanted to marry anyone before,” he said. “When two people marry, they surrender a small part of themselves. They become more like…

— Ilona Andrews

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel

“There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.”

— Georgette Heyer

“Marriage was purely a matter of timing, and whenever a man was finally done sowing his wild oats and ready to settle down, whichever…

— Kevin Kwan

“I suppose I will just have to make sure that I marry someone I look forward to curling around every morning. Whom I can't…

— Anne Mallory