One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenTags: life battle-of-the-sexes
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Jane AustenGive a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane AustenWhat strange creatures brothers are!
Jane AustenI am excessively diverted.
Jane AustenTags: elizabeth-bennet
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Jane AustenTags: marianne-dashwood
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Jane AustenThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenTags: humor books classic aliteracy
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane AustenTags: opening-lines marriage husband wife
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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