Quotes by Jane Austen, page 2

Jane Austen - british Writer

Was born on 16 dec 1775.
Died on 18 jul 1817, at 41 years old.

Origin country: United Kingdom

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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

JQuote by Jane Austen about nation, problems, people

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

JQuote by Jane Austen about nation, problems, people

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

JQuote by Jane Austen about principle, being, life

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

JQuote by Jane Austen about contentment

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

JQuote by Jane Austen about things

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

JQuote by Jane Austen about wealth, wife, truth, good, good luck, man

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

JQuote by Jane Austen about woman, marriage, man

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?

JQuote by Jane Austen about flattering, happiness, talent, moment, contentment

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

JQuote by Jane Austen about woman

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

JQuote by Jane Austen about events, advice, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

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.

JQuote by Jane Austen about nation, rest, faith

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

JQuote by Jane Austen about guilt

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JQuote by Jane Austen about life

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

JQuote by Jane Austen about being, love

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.

JQuote by Jane Austen about admiration, woman, man

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

JQuote by Jane Austen about good, good luck