I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Jane AustenShe had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Jane AustenThe most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
Jane AustenShe would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.
Jane Austen