Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen

British Writer

Born: Dec 16, 1775

Died: Jul 18, 1817

Always Cannot Good Love Man Woman

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals. Jane Austen

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. Jane Austen

Life Nature Given Been Taste Pitied Much Who Early

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen

Own Aim Distinction Destroys Dress About Excessive Times Frivolous Often

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen

Good Stupid Gentleman Pleasure Must Person Lady Who Novel

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

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. Jane Austen

Respect Every Felt Conduct Body Right Right Conduct

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

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

Best Good Man Own Our Ways Like Another May

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen

Friendship You Business Money Know Does May Ever Hardly Bring

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

Women World Men Pretty Them Certainly Fortune Large Many Deserve

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen

Life Selfish My Life Practice Though All My Life Principle Been Being

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Jane Austen

Will Vain Husbands Generally Understand Wives Opposition

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Jane Austen

Sex Hundred Marry Taken Either Who

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen

Best Great Our Cities Morality Look

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Jane Austen

Woman Satisfied Cares Herself Pleasing More Over Feels Safe Powers She Without Exert Always Than Disengaged Done May Suspicion Lady Engaged Agreeable Her Harm

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. Jane Austen

Propriety Employment Does Always Am Afraid

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

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Jane Austen

Correct General Opinion Where

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