It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.