Happiness Quote by Jane Austen

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

“was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

— Jane Austen

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was…

— Lisa Kleypas

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree…

— Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

“A woman wishes to be swept up by a man’s fervent feelings for her, by love and longing and depth of feeling. She does…

— Melanie Dickerson

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill

“Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen.” She went on to write that while the concept of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert