Quote #24
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
More from Jane Austen
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
- It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
- 'I am afraid,' replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.