Men Quotes by Jane Austen

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

— Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

— Jane Austen

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

— Jane Austen

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

— Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains?

— Jane Austen

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

— Jane Austen

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

— Jane Austen

never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as…

— Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

— Jane Austen

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine…

— Jane Austen

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

— Jane Austen

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose…

— Jane Austen

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

— Jane Austen

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he…

— Jane Austen

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

— Jane Austen

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel,…

— Jane Austen

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for…

— Jane Austen

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them…

— Jane Austen

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person…

— Jane Austen

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to…

— Jane Austen

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had…

— Jane Austen

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,…

— Jane Austen

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she…

— Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a…

— Jane Austen

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in…

— Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

— Jane Austen

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not…

— Jane Austen

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution…

— Jane Austen

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.…

— Jane Austen

“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than…

— Jane Austen

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

— Jane Austen

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

— Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

— Jane Austen

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

— Jane Austen

“He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.”

— Jane Austen

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

— Jane Austen

“Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.”

— Jane Austen

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

— Jane Austen