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Men 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.
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
- It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
- With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
- 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.
- The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What are men to rocks and mountains?
- A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
- Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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