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Man Quotes by Jane Austen
- The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
- 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.
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness…
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality…
- From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief…
- A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
- I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a…
- Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her…
- for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
- Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as…
- We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
- There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but…
- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
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