Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony... Quote from a Jane… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently. “You want to tell me, and I have… — 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
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
“I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as… — 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
“I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess… — 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
“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of… — 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
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach… — 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
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
“After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit… — 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
“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
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
“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
“should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there… — 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
“She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I admire all my three sons-in-law highly," said he. "Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — 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
“Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a… — 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
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in… — 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
“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 Image
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image