Emma Woodhouse Quotes

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.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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

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

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 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.”