"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage." ― Jane Austen Topic(s): Marriage More From Jane Austen "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." "A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." "There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them." More In Marriage "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."― Mao Zedong "I decided he’d changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn’t like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."― Anthony Holden "Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."― Washington Irving