Jane Austen Quotes

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

#British Writer #Love

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

#Greek Philosopher #Affection

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

#British Writer

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

#British Writer #Happiness

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.

#British Writer #Death

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.

#British Writer

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

#British Writer

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

#British Writer #Guilt

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

#British Writer #People

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

#British Writer #Fortune

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

#British Writer #Pleasure

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

#British Writer

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

#British Writer #Habit

What are men to rocks and mountains?

#Men

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

#British Writer

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

#British Writer

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

#Ancestry

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

#Men And Women

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

#Existence

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

#Celibacy

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

#Boys