(141 quotes found)
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Jane Austen
“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”