Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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 as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.