"With men he can be rational and..." - Quote by Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
More by Jane Austen
“This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.”
“I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
More on Gender
“Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.”
“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.”
More on Social Behavior
“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”
“Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.”
“One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”