Emma Woodhouse Quotes

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man’s eyes as I am in my father’s.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

“I certainly must,′ said she. ‘This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything’s being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.”