Quotes (18)
Add a Quote“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
"You have no compassion on my poor nerves."
"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do." - Lydia after she got married.
"Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman." - Lydia to Jane.
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.