Quotes by Jane Austen, page 3

Jane Austen - british Writer

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

Origin country: United Kingdom

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.

JQuote by Jane Austen about attack, fasting

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

JQuote by Jane Austen about obstacles, man

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

JQuote by Jane Austen about suffering, nothing, love

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

JQuote by Jane Austen about world

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

JQuote by Jane Austen about style, rules, man

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

JQuote by Jane Austen about good, good luck, man

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

JQuote by Jane Austen about hope, contentment

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

JQuote by Jane Austen about being

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

JQuote by Jane Austen about world, love, man

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

JQuote by Jane Austen about literature, pleasure, people, good, good luck

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

JQuote by Jane Austen about wealth, man, world

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

JQuote by Jane Austen about nation, people, contentment

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

JQuote by Jane Austen about nation, people, contentment

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

JQuote by Jane Austen about home, real estate, nothing

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

JQuote by Jane Austen about mind

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

JQuote by Jane Austen about nature, life

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

JQuote by Jane Austen about love

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

JQuote by Jane Austen about joy, state, being