Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Bennett

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.