# Quote — Jane Austen, Emma

> It was a delightful visit—perfect, in being much too short.

- Author: [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md)
- Book: [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_(novel)#Volume_I) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/it-was-a-delightful

## More from this book

> Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

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> Jane Fairfax is a very charming young woman - but not even Jane Fairfax is perfect. She has a fault. She has not the open temper which a man would wish for in a wife.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/jane-fairfax-is-a-very.md)

> Nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/nobody-who-has.md)