Matrimony in a Moment

Edmund_Blair_Leighton_-_signing_the_register

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

In keeping with the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’, here is another quote from that work, and in accompaniment is ‘Signing the Register’ painting by Edmund Blair Leighton, a Pre-Raphaelite artist.

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