Jane Austen Silly Quotations

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.