If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the… — 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
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — 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
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. — 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
