Jane Austen Quotes about Marriage

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love, Marriage, Littles

Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Jane Austen

Marriage, Struggle, Long

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

Jane Austen

Marriage, Dance, Country

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.

Jane Austen

Love, Marriage, Doe

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

Marriage, Home, Men

Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.383