Emma Quote by Jane Austen

“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

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

— Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

— Jane Austen

“If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

— Jane Austen

“Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a…

— Jane Austen

“Women are fundamentally incapable of loving a man in the way that a man expects to be loved by a woman.”

— Rollo Tomassi

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“Women and men should not marry, for love is like the seasons—it comes and goes.”

— Yang Erche Namu

“Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.”

— David Mitchell

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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