Jane Austen Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

• Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, Men, Wife

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.56

• It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Selfish, Ambition

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wife, Mourning

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

• Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

  Jane Austen

  Husband, Wife, Literature

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.187, BookCaps Study Guides

• Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

  Jane Austen

  Taken, Mrs Bennet, Wife

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.5, FV Éditions

• I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Dance, Country

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