Mary

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice