“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yes and I had heard it before. But what is that to me? If there is no other objection to my marrying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As it was impossible however now to prevent their coming, Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it, with all the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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