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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

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.

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

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

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

Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Jane Austen

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Jane Austen

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

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

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

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.

Jane Austen

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.

Jane Austen