“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling)… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby… — 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
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — 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
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — 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
“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
