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Film—Animation

Jafar: It pains me to see you reduced to this, Jasmine. A beautiful desert bloom such as yourself should be on the arm of the most powerful man in the world. What do you say my dear? Why, with you as my queen...
[Jasmine hurls a glass of wine at him]
Jasmine: Never!

Gaston: This is the day your dreams come true.
Belle: What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?
Gaston: Plenty! Picture this. A rustic hunting lodge. My latest kill roasting on the fire. My little wife massaging my feet. While the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. We'll have six or seven.
Belle: Dogs?
Gaston: No, Belle. Strapping boys, like me!
Belle: Imagine that.
Gaston: And do you know who that little wife will be?
Belle: Let me think.
Gaston: You, Belle.
Belle: Gaston, I'm...I'm...speechless. I really don't know what to say.
Gaston: Say you'll marry me.
Belle: I'm very sorry, Gaston, but...but...I just don't deserve you!

Scar: Don't you see? There is nobody to challenge me. We can finally take whatever we want.
Sarabi: We?
Scar: Long ago, you chose Mufasa over me. But now there is a new king. So stop being so selfish.
Sarabi: You are the selfish one.
Scar: The other lions look to you. As long as you resist they will reject me. Take your place by my side and we will feast together.
Sarabi: I will never be your queen.
Scar: Then from now on, the lions will eat after the hyenas. And they don't leave much behind.

Rothbart: Your knight in shining armor has come to set you free. [...] All it takes is one little word. Will you marry me?
Odette: Every night, you ask the same question.
Rothbart: No, no...
Odette: And every night, I give you the same answer.
Rothbart: Don't!
Odette: I'll die first.
Rothbart: You're really starting to bug me.
Odette: I should think you'd be used to it by now.

Eugene: But I know what the big question is: Did Rapunzel and I ever get married?, Well, I am pleased to tell you that after years and years of asking and asking and asking...I finally said yes.
Rapunzel: Eugene.
Eugene: Alright, I asked her.
Rapunzel: And we're living happily ever after.

Film—Live Action

Forrest: Will you marry me? I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny: You would, Forrest.
Forrest: But you won't marry me.
Jenny: You don't wanna marry me.
Forrest: Why don't you love me, Jenny? I'm not a smart man. But I know what love is.

Literature

Jondalar: I've decided it's time to make our arrangement formal. I should have done it long before. You're a beautiful, loving woman, Serenio. And Darvo is a fine boy. To have him as the true child of my hearth would make me very proud. But I was hoping you might consider travelling with me, back home...back to the Zelandonii. Of course, if you don't...
Serenio: Jondalar, you can't decide to make our arrangement formal. I'm not going to mate you. I decided that long ago.
Earth's Children, The Valley of Horses

"You are mistaken, Mr Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner. [...] You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. [...] From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry."
Elizabeth Bennett, Pride and Prejudice

Captain Laurence: Jane, will you marry me?
Admiral Roland: [surprised] Why, no, dear fellow. It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered.
Temeraire: Empire of Ivory

Slash: Taking you as a mate was the only smart decision he never made. Why don't you get smart, Violet, and let me take his place? You would not go hungry if you were a leader's mate.
Violet: Never!

Live-Action TV

Gendry: I don't know how to be lord of anything, I hardly know how to use a fork. All I know is that you're beautiful, and I love you, and none of it will be worth anything if you're not with me. So be with me. Be my wife. Be the lady of Storm's End.
Arya: You'll be a wonderful lord. And any lady would be lucky to have you. But I'm not a lady. I never have been. That's not me.

Webcomic

[Beat Panel]
[Beat Panel]
"Flame Strike."
Hilgya Firehelm answering a marriage proposal, The Order of the Stick, "Enough Diamonds Already"


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