“What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?”
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“It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden”
“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”
“No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.”
“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
“I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
“A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”
“Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.”
“They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
“The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”
“It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.”
“If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!”
“I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.”
“As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.”
“Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.”