This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”
Source: Emma
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Jane Austen 477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 30.
“And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is ever wide.”
Nemesis
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.”
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Women As Lovers (1994)
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
Source: Selected Letters
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)