“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Marriage
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
BestAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Politics“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Nature“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Business“A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Imagination“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Best“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
Beauty“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Nature“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
Education“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Men“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
Education“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
Best“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
Truth“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Happiness“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
Nature