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

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen

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

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen

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

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen

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

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

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen

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.
Jane Austen

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