Jane Austen, portrait from 1873, based on a drawing by her sister.Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
My Quotation of the Week comes
from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
(Ch. 42; referring to Elizabeth Bennet)Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
