“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
“With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness… — 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
“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of… — 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
“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
“Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her partner now drew near, and said, "That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half… — 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
“Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together,… — 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
“In marriage especially. With all due respect to such of the present company as chance to be married, my dear Mrs. Grant,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear… — 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
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his… — 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
“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
