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Women Quotes by Jane Austen
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without…
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
- 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.
- With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
- All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
- Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,…
- Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
- 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…
- I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
- You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I…
- She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
- I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be…
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
- Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have…
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