Quotes By Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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.