MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Marriage of convenience

"Marriage of convenience" Quotes from Famous Books

... want to "get on" up the social scale have found that pretty daughters are a marketable commodity, and many a man has been placed "on his legs," both financially and socially, by his son-in-law. Hence the marriage of convenience is fast becoming common, while in the same ratio the divorce petitions ...

— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux

... between our family and the Count de Florac. I could not be wanting to the word given by my father. For how many long years have I kept it? But when I see a young girl who may be made the victim—the subject of a marriage of convenience, as I was—my heart pities her. And if I love her, as I love you, I tell her my thoughts. Better poverty, Ethel: better a cell in a convent: than a union without love. Is it written eternally that men are to make slaves of ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... perhaps, clearly not Mr. Baruch's face. Ultimately the sculptor succeeded in wedding a smile to that brow, and the bust went on exhibition with those of Wilson, Foch, House, Clemenceau, and the others; but the union was never more than a compromise, a marriage of convenience ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous