I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Sense will always have attractions for me.
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?