Quotes About Perspective

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.

I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

My style of writing is very different from yours.

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

What are men compared to rocks and trees?

Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness? Grandeur has but little, said Elinor, but wealth has much to do with it. Elinor, for shame! Said Marianne. Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Oh! to be sure, cried Emma, it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.  So much the better.  I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do.  I am quite enough in love.  I should be sorry to be more.

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

La imaginación de las mujeres hace que concibamos demasiadas ilusiones respecto de los hombres. -Y los hombres procuran que así sea

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.