Quotes by Jane Austen
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
