Category Archives: Men
Handsome…
Thought it would be fun to lighten things up with some images here. (And wanted to try out the new Pinterest buttons I added. Join me over there!) To be fair, this is not a saying Jane Austen came up … Continue reading
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Filed under Darcy, Images, Letters, Matthew Macfadyen, Men, On being a gentleman
Haughty, haughty
. . . Darcy was clever. He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting. In that respect his friend had greatly the advantage. Bingley was sure of being liked … Continue reading
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Filed under Character description, Darcy, Men, Mr. Bingley, Pride, Pride and Prejudice
Marry? Mr. Collins?
“Mr. Collins to be sure was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had … Continue reading
Filed under Charlotte Lucas, Marriage, Men, Money, Mr. Collins, Poverty, Pride and Prejudice
Men of large fortune
“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.” Mansfield Park, volume 1, chapter 1 Oh, how true!
Filed under Beauty, Mansfield Park, Men, Money, Wealth
Can money make a man smart?
Apparently so! “If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.” What Edmund Bertram thinks to himself about Mr. Rushworth Mansfield Park, volume 1, chapter 4
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Filed under Edmund Bertram, Mansfield Park, Men, Money, Mr. Rushworth, Wealth
That familiar truth
If we’re going to be talking about money, we have to revisit this old favorite.
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Filed under Illustrations, Marriage, Men, Money, Money and Marriage, Pride and Prejudice, Wealth
Sir John
Benevolent, philanthropic man! It was painful to him even to keep a third cousin to himself. Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 21 Of Sir John Middleton, and his desire to introduce the Miss Dashwoods to the Miss Steeles
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Filed under Men, Sarcasm, Sense and Sensibility, Sir John Middleton
Advantageous idleness
” . . . as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable . . . ” Sense and … Continue reading
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Filed under Edward Ferrars, Men, Sense and Sensibility, Youth
Properly idle
” . . . a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.” Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 19 Spoken by Edward … Continue reading
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Filed under Edward Ferrars, Men, Youth
An agreable flirt
“There is something about him that rather interests me, a sort of sauciness . . . he may be an agreable [sic] flirt. There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge … Continue reading
Filed under Flirting, Lady Susan, Men, Pride
