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.
Quote by Jane Austen about attack, fasting
Quotes by Jane Austen, page 3
73 quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen - british Writer
Was born on 16 dec 1775.
Died on 18 jul 1817, at 41 years old.
Died on 18 jul 1817, at 41 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Quote 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.
Quote by Jane Austen about suffering, nothing, love
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Quote by Jane Austen about good, good luck, man
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Quote by Jane Austen about hope
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Quote 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.
Quote 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.
Quote 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.
Quote by Jane Austen about wealth, man, world
There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.
Quote by Jane Austen about nation, people
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Quote by Jane Austen about nation, people
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Quote by Jane Austen about home, real estate, nothing
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Quote by Jane Austen about nature, life
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Quote by Jane Austen about joy, state, being
