“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“[Matrimony] is the grave of love.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 5 (In London and Moscow), chap. 8 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter106.html (“She won’t believe it, as she knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony.” “How is that?” “I hate it because it is the grave of love.”) <br class="br">Referenced
“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian poet
Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona
de la mia donna disiosamente...
che lo 'ntelletto sovr'esse disvia.
Trattato Terzo, line 1.
Il Convivio (1304–1307)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831)
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
“I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
