Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

Jane Austen

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Jane Austen

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Jane Austen

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

Jane Austen

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Jane Austen

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

Jane Austen

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Jane Austen

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

Jane Austen

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

Jane Austen

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Jane Austen

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Jane Austen

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

Jane Austen

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Jane Austen

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...

Jane Austen

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Jane Austen

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Jane Austen

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 by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Jane Austen

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

Jane Austen

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Jane Austen

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

Jane Austen

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Jane Austen

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

Jane Austen

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Jane Austen

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.