24 quotes by Jane Austen

Society
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
3.1 · 41 votes · 17 reads
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Society
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.
4.4 · 15 votes · 88 reads
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Society
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
4.5 · 62 votes · 106 reads
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Feelings
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
4.5 · 35 votes · 150 reads
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Society
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
4.2 · 64 votes · 87 reads
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Society
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
4.1 · 20 votes · 148 reads
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Society
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.
5.0 · 35 votes · 38 reads
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Virtues
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
3.0 · 9 votes · 179 reads
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Feelings
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
4.9 · 61 votes · 96 reads
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Feelings
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
3.6 · 42 votes · 122 reads
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Society
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
3.7 · 6 votes · 82 reads
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Nature
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
3.3 · 50 votes · 128 reads
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Various
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
3.8 · 32 votes · 99 reads
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Nature
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.
4.9 · 12 votes · 101 reads
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Society
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
4.9 · 31 votes · 183 reads
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Thought and Reason
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
3.8 · 13 votes · 79 reads
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Time
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
4.7 · 62 votes · 188 reads
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Nature
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
5.0 · 45 votes · 11 reads
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Feelings
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
3.1 · 49 votes · 146 reads
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