Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Quotes

“...if parents wish to encourage a match, young people are thrown together as much as possible. However big the gathering, you are somehow always paired off with the eligible party until you grow to loathe the man and would sooner become an 'old maid' than marry him.”
― Jenny Wren, Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl

“Parents are greatly at fault in the issues of the matrimonial market. After all these centuries of experience, you would give them credit for more tact than they possess. Any match they do not desire, they oppose at once, and thereby set alight all the contradictory elements in your nature. If Laban had been less obstinate, and had consented to an alliance between Jacob and Rachel from the first, provided Leah was left behind to look after him, the latter would immediately have been endowed with attractions innumerable to Jacob, tender eyes and all!
Nowhere is there such a fertile soil for love as opposition!”
― Jenny Wren, Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl