MARRIAGE in Classic Quotes

1  Scarlett was glad to be done with passion and marriage.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  That marriage should be like this was no surprise to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  But there were two difficulties in the way of marriage into the County families.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  Love isn't enough to make a successful marriage when two people are as different as we are.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  Widowhood had crowded closely on the heels of marriage but, to her dismay, motherhood soon followed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  She had been thinking of marriage and of Ashley, and she looked at Charles with poorly concealed irritation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  "Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  Ellen, sensitive to the bonds of kin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy be sent home immediately.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  Dilcey was head woman and midwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buy Dilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughters among their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  Careless of the disapproval of Aunt Pitty's friends, she behaved as she had behaved before her marriage, went to parties, danced, went riding with soldiers, flirted, did everything she had done as a girl, except stop wearing mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained with that in view.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  She was done with marriage but not with love, for her love for Ashley was something different, having nothing to do with passion or marriage, something sacred and breathtakingly beautiful, an emotion that grew stealthily through the long days of her enforced silence, feeding on oft-thumbed memories and hopes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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