I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women in all my acquaintance who are truly accomplished.
“I have been a selfish being all my life. As a child I was given good principles, but was left to follow them in pride and conceit. And such I might still have been, but for you—dearest, loveliest Elizabeth.”
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“So okay, I don’t want to be a traitor to my generation and all but I don’t get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew - and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we’re expected to swoon? I don’t think so.” - Clueless v. Emma
