“She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
Source: Ransom
“She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
No. 475 (4 September 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“She was the most intelligent woman of her day and she refused to get married in nine languages.”
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, Elizabeth
When I. K. Gujral came to meet him at the behest of Indira Gandhi to know his mind for contesting to the post of President of India, In p. 328.
Quest for Truth (1999)
Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 2, “Sea of Life” (p. 25)