There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen