Jane Austen Quotes
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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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.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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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.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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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.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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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.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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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