All Jane Austen Quotes
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Affection
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Laugh
- Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Attack
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. All
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. Enjoyment
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse… Ask
- A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. Cannot Write
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Every Man
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Chance
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. Beauty
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. Affection
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. Been
- Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. Crossed
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. Abbey
- How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! Approval
- A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. Answer
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. Considerable
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Cannot Understand
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. All
- I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. Afraid