It Is Truth Universally Acknowledged

It is a truth universally best-selling, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must exist in want of a wife.

Context

You're looking at i of the virtually famous opening lines in all of literature.

This is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and it basically sets up everything to come.

Mr. Bingley, a young and rich available, has moved into boondocks, and mother-cum-matchmaker Mrs. Bennet, with her 5 single daughters, is assault making him fall for at least one of them.

The line—spoken by the snarky narrator—is, of course, a petty tongue-in-cheek. A single, wealthy human being isn't necessarily in need of a wife, only Mrs. Bennet is certainly in need of a single, wealthy man. By using the words "truth universally best-selling," Austen parodies the philosophical works of the time—as if saying information technology makes information technology so.

Austen is having a fleck a fun while introducing us straightaway to the chief plot element of her novel: marriage.

Where you've heard it

"Information technology is a truth universally acknowledged, that __________."

Fill in the blank and have fun.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drib this quote at a dinner party, would you go an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

This opening line is and then well known that reciting information technology could inappreciably exist considered pretentious. Just remember to maintain the sarcasm.