Jane Austen Quotes

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen

Guilt, Misery, Dwell

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen

Anyone, Worse, Sore

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen

Enough, Cannot, Speak

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen

Sure, Next, Month

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.
Jane Austen

Truth, Human, Happen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen

Done, Cannot, Soon

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

Opinion, General, Correct

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen

Politics, Silence, Easy

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

Friendship, General, Ought

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

Understand, Vain, Husbands

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen

Marriage, Woman, Refuse

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen

Good, Minds, Nobody

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen

Cannot, Laughing, Witty

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
Jane Austen

Another, Style, Rule

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Women, Strong, Single

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

Women, Men, Pretty

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen

Working, Weak, Head

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Self, Sure, Wild

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

Often, Times, Aim

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

Life, Nature, Early

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

Life, Beauty, Girl

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

Girl, Reason, Youth

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

Education, Men, Story

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.
Jane Austen

Nature, Human, Person

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16, 1775

Died: July 28, 1817

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