Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 27. Elizabeth is being sarcastic and ironic here and doesn’t mean what she says. She is referring to Mr. Collins, a man who is stupid but whom she finds irritable and not the least attractive. Fed up with men and abandoned by George Wickam, she makes this comment to her aunt as she is about to visit the Collinses. This is the full quote of what Elizabeth says to Mrs. Gardiner: "Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all." To this her aunt reponds: "Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment."