“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 Austen 477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“[Matrimony] is the grave of love.”
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.”)
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“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5
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)
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831)
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
