It is a truth universally acknowledged that.....

                               ——From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marrige. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody to ask.
• It sometimes happen that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
• A large income is the best recipe for hapiness I ever heard of.
• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
• An engaged woman is always agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothing.
• There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of cure.
• Oh, do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
• Next to be married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.