Jane Austen Quotes
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
By Jane Austen
He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to.
By Jane Austen
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.
By Jane Austen
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
By Jane Austen
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
By Jane Austen
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
By Jane Austen
'Only a novel'... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
By Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
By Jane Austen
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.
By Jane Austen
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.
By Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
By Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
By Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
By Jane Austen
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.
By Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
By Jane Austen