Emma

Quotes

• “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
• “Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”
• “Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.”
• “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 anybody who asks her.”
• “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
• “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

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