One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Tag: life battle-of-the-sexes

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Jane Austen

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Give 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 Austen

Tag: education women

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What strange creatures brothers are!

Jane Austen

Tag: brothers siblings

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I am excessively diverted.

Jane Austen

Tag: elizabeth-bennet

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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.

Jane Austen

Tag: marianne-dashwood

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I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Jane Austen

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

Tag: humor books classic aliteracy

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Tag: opening-lines marriage husband wife

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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.

Jane Austen

Tag: prejudice vanity pride

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