A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

More from Pride and Prejudice (novel)

• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
• There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
• Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.