The Semi-Attached Couple Quotes

“Thirty morning gowns!" whispered Sarah, as they went down stairs. "The idea of a new gown every day for a month. Now I call that real happiness.”
― Emily Eden, The Semi-Attached Couple

“I always pity the bridegroom on these occasions. The bride is supported by her father, and attended by her bridesmaids, and everybody is or pretends to be in a fright, lest she should faint or cry; and she has all the protection of a veil in case she should be too shy or not shy enough; and there is a general sympathy in her feelings. The poor man has to walk himself up alone to the altar, where he stands, looking uncommonly foolish, without even the protection of his hat. There is the mother sobbing at him for carrying off her child; the sisters scowling at him because he did not choose one of them; the clergyman frowning at him for not producing the ring at the right moment, or for neglecting the responses in their proper places; the brothers laugh at him; the bride turns from him; and the only person who pays him the slightest attention is the clerk, who tells him when he is to kneel, and when to stand, and which is his right hand, and which his left, and helps him to the discovery of his waistcoat pocket, in which the ring may or may not be.”
― Emily Eden, The Semi-Attached Couple

“«Prefiero ser odiado que amado con tibieza»”
― Emily Eden, The Semi-Attached Couple

“Pues las cosas son así:
jamás apreciamos en su justa medida aquello de que gozamos mientras lo disfrutamos,
pero, cuando sentimos su falta si lo perdemos
entonces su valía exageramos;
entonces descubrimos las virtudes que no estimamos cuando eran nuestro.”
― Emily Eden, The Semi-attached Couple

“What could be more absurd than to assemble a crowd to witness a man and woman promising to love each other for the rest of their lives, when we know what human creatures are, — men so thoroughly selfish and unprincipled, women so vain and frivolous?”
― Emily Eden, The Semi-Attached Couple