"Matchmaker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prosperity began to dawn, he grew courageous and asked the maiden to become his wife. His disappointment was keen when he found the girl had in the meantime decided to take the veil. The wig-maker proved to be a matchmaker, for when he learned how matters stood he urged the composer to take the sister, who was only three years older. The gentle Haydn was unable to withstand the pressure brought to bear, and consented. After his bride was his he found he had won a virago, one who cared nothing for art or for her husband's ...
— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower
... as we know, is by habit a matchmaker, and likes the vocation—assumes a placid but cogitative mien, rubs his brow gently, and says in his softest, best-bred accents, "You would not marry a mere girl? some one of suitable age. I know several most superior young women on the other ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... contemporary declares that the side-car stands unrivalled as a matchmaker. It would seem, however, that opinion on the subject ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various |
