--- title: "6 Dislike Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "6 Dislike quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Dislike sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/jane-austen-39_defects_and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate_847130.jpg" --- > [“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate-everybody-and-yours-he-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/jane-austen-39_defects_and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate_847130.jpg) > [“And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/and-yet-i-meant-to-be-uncommonly-clever-in-taking-so-decided-a/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/289/jane-austen-39_quote_and-yet-i-meant-to-be-uncommonly-clever_1387946.jpg) > [She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-was-nothing-more-than-a-mere-good-tempered-civil-and-obliging/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57d/jane-austen-39_contempt_she-was-nothing-more-than-a-mere-good-te_1714094.jpg) > [“I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-meant-to-be-uncommonly-clever-in-taking-so-decided-a-dislike-to-him/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/jane-austen-39_quote_i-meant-to-be-uncommonly-clever-in-takin_1796572.jpg) > [From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/from-the-very-beginning-from-the-first-moment-i-may-almost-say-of-my/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/128/jane-austen-39_acquaintance_from-the-very-beginning-from-the-first-m_2523707.jpg) > [To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/to-take-a-dislike-to-a-young-man-only-because-he-appeared-to-be-of-a/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/jane-austen-39_different_to-take-a-dislike-to-a-young-man-only-be_2953760.jpg) ## Other authors on Dislike ## More by Jane Austen > [Let us have the luxury of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/let-us-have-the-luxury-of-silence/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/how-earnestly-did-she-then-wish-that-her-former-opinions-had-been/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-very-well-worth-while-to-be-tormented-for-two-or-three-years-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [ “Everybody is taken in at some period or another. \[...\] In marriage especially. \[...\] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or-another-in-marriage/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-knew-that-what-marianne-and-her-mother-conjectured-one-moment/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/for-i-look-upon-the-frasers-to-be-about-as-unhappy-as-most-other/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-raises-my-spleen-more-than-any-thing-to-have-the-pretence-of-being/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-spirits-wanted-the-solitude-and-silence-which-only-numbers-could/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-in-such-cases-as-these-a-good-memory-is-unpardonable/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-pleasantness-of-an-employment-does-not-always-evince-its-propriety/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-squeamish-youths-as-cannot-bear-to-be-connected-with-a-little/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-must-tell-you-what-you-will-not-ask-though-i-may-wish-it-unsaid-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-seemed-quite-astonished-at-not-receiving-a-direct/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-had-suffered-and-he-had-learnt-to-think-two-advantages-that-he-had/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-eliot-s-character/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dislike/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "6 Dislike Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.\" \"And yours,\" he replied with a smile, \"is wilfully to misunderstand them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Austen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate-everybody-and-yours-he-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/jane-austen-39_defects_and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate_847130.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/jane-austen-39_defects_and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate_847130.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/jane-austen-39_defects_and-your-defect-is-a-propensity-to-hate_847130.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.\" \"And yours,\" he replied with a smile, \"is wilfully to…” — Jane Austen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. 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