Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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“Your woman’s satisfaction is mandatory, and any man who thinks otherwise is less than a man.” — Mz. Robinson Copy Share Image
“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.” — M.G. Hardie Copy Share Image
“There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.” — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.” — Lionel Suggs 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