“was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is fit that the fortune should be on his side, for I think the merit will be all on hers.” — 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
“But what is distance, Mr. Weston, to people of large fortune? -Mrs. Elton” — 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
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he… — 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
![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
