Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Since we are a nation who thrives on convenance you think people will grow it themself when they can just go buy it. hell no, then those same people will have something else to complain about. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The upside of this convenance is that commuters accept a modern, reliable approach of transport, they accumulate beside of the latest technology and their cartage seldom, if ever, crave additional parts. ❋ Unknown (2008)
En effet, je deteste mariage de convenance, mauvaise honte et mauvais sujet. ❋ Nomadicasian (2007)
It ` s not a full deed with convenance (ph) against a grantor. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out? ❋ Unknown (2006)
You see, in these mariages de convenance, though a coronet may be convenient to a beautiful young creature, and a beautiful young creature may be convenient to an old gentleman, there are articles which the marriage-monger cannot make to convene at all: tempers over which M. de Foy and his like have no control; and tastes which cannot be put into the marriage settlements. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We make marriages of convenance in our country, que diable, and what follows follows; but no scandal afterwards! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Living by themselves in their ancient castles, or their dreary mansion of the Faubourg St. Germain, I suppose the Duke and Duchess grew tried of one another, as persons who enter into a mariage de convenance sometimes, nay, as those who light a flaming love-match, and run away with one another, will be found to do. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There were some sets even then which were rather rapid, which abolished a good deal of the tightness of convenance, whose motto seemed to be savoir vivre, to be easy, fascinating, fashionable, and dainty as well as social. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Dynasties and aristocracies which have disregarded the laws of nature have decreased in numbers and degenerated in stature; ‘mariages de convenance’ leave their enfeebling stamp on the offspring of them (King Lear). ❋ Unknown (2006)
France is the country where that sweet Christian institution of mariages de convenance (which so many folks of the family about which this story treats are engaged in arranging) is most in vogue. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Marriages de convenance, which are generally arranged by the parents, will turn out the reverse. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That is true only of contingent truths, of which the principle is fitness [convenance] or choice of the best, whereas necessary truths depend solely on His understanding and are its inner object. ❋ Unknown (2004)
English husband might do very well, the interests of the firm might make such an arrangement desirable, such a mariage de convenance — so I argued to myself — might be quite compatible with — with heaven only knows what delights of superterrestial romance, from which I, as being an English thick-headed lump of useful coarse mortality, was to be altogether debarred. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As a rule one or the other is the case, for it is only by the rarest and luckiest accident that convenance and passionate love go hand in hand. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A girl who against the wish of her parents refuses to marry a rich man, still young, and ignores all considerations of convenance, in order to choose another instinctively to her liking, sacrifices her individual welfare to the species. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I hope it will not be thought that I am arguing in favor of marriages de convenance as against sentiment and romance. ❋ Unknown (1969)
Propriété, a touchante Unité, a convenance pathétique ❋ GIORGIO TONELLI (1968)
If you guys don't understand why someone would pay more for an item due to [convenance] ([A-HEH]! [Convenance] Stores!! A-HEM!!), then I guess we now know who the real [morons] are. ❋ [email protected] (2006)
They must convene to [discuss] [the current] [problems]. ❋ Larstait (2003)
