Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable! Author: Jane Austen Copy Quote More from Jane Austen “Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they …” “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer…” “What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.” “A man who had felt less, might.”