Aristocracy Quote by Marissa Doyle

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And…

— Anne Rice

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

— Marius Gabriel

“There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.”

— Erma Bombeck

“I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.”

— Agatha Christie

“I would rather they did not speak of it at all, until I am out of the district." Mrs. Bennet was all amazement. "Until…

— Helen Halstead

“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and…

— Jacqueline Carey

“she wondered what it was like to know that you were to be married, that you would have a home, an income, that you…

— Jo Baker

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

— Judith James

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“the weird possibility of marriage loomed. It loomed, in part, because there weren’t very many appealing models of what other kinds of female life…

— Rebecca Traister