88 Quotations by Jane Austen
- 21. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- 22. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
- 23. How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
- 24. Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso ...
- 25. I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
- 26. I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
- 27. I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's perf ...
- 28. I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
- 29. I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great de ...
- 30. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- 31. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- 32. I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess ...
- 33. If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory ...
- 34. In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an h ...
- 35. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se ...
- 36. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
- 37. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in ...
- 38. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- 39. It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co ...
- 40. It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing ...
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