“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been… — 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
“Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of… — 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
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large fortune is in want of a wife!” — 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
“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
“Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to attack me with,--`Oh! you will think very differently, when… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me… — 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
“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 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
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
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
“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
“If he had had any compassion for me," cried her husband impatiently, "he would not have danced half so much! For God's… — 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
“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.” — 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
“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
