Jane Austen Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”

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

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

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

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

“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.”

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

“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.”