Quote #20
'I am afraid,' replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
More from Jane Austen
- Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...
- People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
- The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
- How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.