Engagement Quote by Jane Austen

“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…

— Jack Ketchum

“and the Prospect of that continued Bliss she expected to share with him, took from her all Remorse for having engaged in an Affair…

— Eliza Haywood

“A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise…

— Lorrie Moore

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“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

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

“She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.”

— P.D. James

“She fought for the right to love, men and women, rejecting the conventions that marriage demands exclusive love, and that women should love only…

— Nigel Nicolson

“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to…

— Dorothy Sayers