“It is truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large fortune is in want of a wife!”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.”
“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”
“Read Above Your Head--“You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”
“Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.”