Matching exercise

  

Match the items on the right to the items on the left. The items on the left are quotations of these authors. Can you guess what they are talking about?

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

"A contract of eternal bond of love confirm'd by mutual joinder of hands" Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act v, Sc.1
"Age cannot whither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety"
Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act v, Sc.1

"The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again...We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to." Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"