Jane Austen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”