--- title: "6 Selfish Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "6 Selfish quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Selfish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95f/jane-austen-39_ambition_it-is-indolence-indolence-and-love-of-ea_818831.jpg" --- > [It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-indolence-indolence-and-love-of-ease-a-want-of-all-laudable/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95f/jane-austen-39_ambition_it-is-indolence-indolence-and-love-of-ea_818831.jpg) > [He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-was-not-an-ill-disposed-young-man-unless-to-be-rather-cold-hearted/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/jane-austen-39_cold_he-was-not-an-ill-disposed-young-man-unl_904854.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) > [I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-have-been-a-selfish-being-all-my-life-in-practice-though-not-in/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/jane-austen-39_life_i-have-been-a-selfish-being-all-my-life_2829603.jpg) > [“She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-is-a-selfish-hypocritical-woman-and-i-have-no-opinion-of-her/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/jane-austen-39_hypocritical_she-is-a-selfish-hypocritical-woman-and_3017531.jpg) > [“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-have-been-a-selfish-being-all-my-life-in-practice-though-not-in-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/jane-austen-39_children_i-have-been-a-selfish-being-all-my-life_3140294.jpg) ## Other authors on Selfish ## 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/selfish/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "6 Selfish Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is indolence... 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