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British Opening Lines

British · 4 openings

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

· Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

· Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

· H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
All children, except one, grow up.

· J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (1911)

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