Jane Austen

Jane Austen

"I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
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"I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
"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 and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
Jane Austen
"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 been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
Jane Austen
"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 further expense to anybody."
Jane Austen
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
Jane Austen
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."
Jane Austen
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
Jane Austen
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
Jane Austen
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
Jane Austen
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
Jane Austen
"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
Jane Austen
"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
Jane Austen
"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
Jane Austen
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
Jane Austen
"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
Jane Austen
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
Jane Austen
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
Jane Austen
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
Jane Austen
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
Jane Austen
"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people."
Jane Austen
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