You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in… The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
![“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/jane-austen-39_anne-elliot_i-believe-you-men-capable-of-everything_652755.jpg)
