Quotes by Jane Austen
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.
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.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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.
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.
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.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
