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Jane Austen Quotes About Women

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen Quotes About Love

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

More Quotes by Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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