"I am quite convinced that I shall never be married."

"A man who has nothing to do, thinks he is doing everything."

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

"I have just been reading a novel which I think is very pretty, but which I do not like at all."

"I have not the least intention of marrying at present, nor have I ever had. I am much too happy as I am."