"if a woman doubts as to whether..." - Quote by Jane Austen
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
More by Jane Austen
“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.”
“It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.”
“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”
More on Marriage
“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”
“Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”