Happiness Quote by Jane Austen

“She [Queen Isabella] will look at you as women look at men. She will judge you as women judge men. Not on the strength…

— Orson Scott Card

“You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. …

— Jane Austen

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found…

— George Eliot

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position of mistress…

— Antonia Fraser

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of…

— Henry James

“When all was said and done, Ella was but a maiden, a member of the fairer sex. It was a well-known fact that women…

— Michelle Smart

“Miss Bates…had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care…

— Jane Austen