Quotes by Jane Austen about Woman

Jane Austen British Writer

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

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

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...

Quote by Jane Austen about woman