Quotes on history

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

Jane Austen
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Jane Austen
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Jane Austen
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Jane Austen
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“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

Thomas Jefferson
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“There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

Jane Austen
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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

Jane Austen
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“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Jane Austen
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“Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

Jane Austen
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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen
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