"I hate to hear you talk about..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.”

“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.”

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

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”

“The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.”

“It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .”

“The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.”

“It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.”

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”