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- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.
- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
- Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
- There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
- One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.
- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
- The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
- One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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