Men Quotes by Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains?

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— 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

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

— Jane Austen

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed…

— 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

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do…

— Jane Austen

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby…

— Jane Austen

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come…

— Jane Austen

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling)…

— Jane Austen

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the…

— Jane Austen

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought…

— Jane Austen

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter…

— Jane Austen

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more…

— Jane Austen

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in… The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the…

— Jane Austen

“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would…

— Jane Austen

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,…

— Jane Austen

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of…

— Jane Austen

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination…

— Jane Austen

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable…

— Jane Austen

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a…

— Jane Austen

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…

— Jane Austen

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably…

— Jane Austen

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are…

— Jane Austen

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,…

— Jane Austen

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

— Jane Austen

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

— Jane Austen

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

— Jane Austen

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

— Jane Austen

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

— Jane Austen

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

— Jane Austen

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

— 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

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

— Jane Austen