Jane Austen Quotes

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.

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

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

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

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

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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