“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

“The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.”

“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.”

“A woman can only be superior as a woman; as soon as she wants to emulate man, she is nothing but an ape.”

“Relationship Principle 3
He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.”