“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
3 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”