Quiz Archive – Match the Quotation to the Novel

‘He had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them’

‘It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.’

‘There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.’

‘Every neighbourhood should have a great lady’

‘It was the peculiar misfortune of this woman to have bad ministers – Since wicked as she herself was, she could not have committed such extensive mischief had not these vile and abandoned men connived at and encouraged her in her crimes’

‘To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.’

‘A woman of seven and twenty…can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.’

‘Facts are such horrid things’

‘There are some circumstances which even women cannot control. – Female economy will do a great deal…but it cannot turn a small income into a large one.’

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