He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
