A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. - Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.