153 Total Quotes
Jane Austen Quotes
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.
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.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
. . . 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.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.
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.