1. "From the moment I met you, your arrogance and vain conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, has persuaded me that you are the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry."
- Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy after his proposal in Pride and Prejudice
2. "Did you see all the diamonds those ladies wore?" sighed Jane. "They were simply dazzling. Wouldn't you love to be rich, girls?" "We are rich." said Anne staunchly. "Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we're happy as queens, and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at the sea, girls- all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy it's loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. You wouldn't change into any of those ladies if you could....you know you wouldn't, Jane Andrews.
-Anne Shirley to Diana Barry and Jane Andrews in Anne of Green Gables
3. "Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-" she was advancing on him, an ancient tiny fury- "and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more!"
-The Princess Bride
4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or others of their daughters."
- Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
5. "Your son has behaved abominably!" Lucy said angrily. "No, he has not behaved abominably," said Mr Emerson. "He has only tried, which is what he ought not to have done."
-A Room with a View
6. "It is true neither of us have anything to tell," Marianne stated. "You because you share nothing and I because I conceal nothing."
-Marianne to Eleanor in Sense and Sensibility
7. ".....I don't expect to be a bride myself, I'm so homely nobody would ever want to marry me-unless it might be a foreign missionary. I suppose a foreign missionary mightn't be very particular."
- Anne of Green Gables
8. "Even although we meet as strangers now, I still love her with an inextinguishable love. It makes me very sad at times to think of her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?"
-Anne, referring to her former best friend, Diana, in Anne of Green Gables
9. "Dr. Jones?" Elsa inquired. "Yes." He answered. "I knew it was you. You have your fathers eyes." He smiled. "And my mother's ears. But the rest belongs to you."
-Indiana Jones, upon meeting Elsa in Indiana Jones.
10. "A lady's imagination is very rapid. It goes quickly from admiration to love, then from love to matrimony."
-Mr Darcy, speaking to Miss Bingley in Pride and Prejudice
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