"Emma" Quotes
In "Emma" by Alexander McCall Smith, a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic, a young, wealthy woman in present-day England meddles in the romantic lives of those around her, often with unintended consequences.
fiction | 474 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
I cannot make speeches, Emma. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me.
I must not flirt any longer with my own conscience.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from.
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
