Quotes by Jane Austen about Woman

7 quotes by Jane Austen about woman

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of...

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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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.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at...

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

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the...

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.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he...

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

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the...

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