Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen womenhatestrength ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. Jane Austen remembrancepleasurepain One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. Jane Austen literaturemaymen She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Jane Austen womencleverjoy It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. Jane Austen inspiringbeautyyears Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different. Jane Austen dancebelievethinking If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth Jane Austen endeavourdoemen If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy. Jane Austen easyknowsheart I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. Jane Austen meanbelievesex Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. Jane Austen abundancesettlingpast They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. Jane Austen naturetasteinspiring She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Jane Austen livelydispositionridiculous 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 literaturelovemen It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen thorough-knowledgefiction-novelsmind There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. Jane Austen characterpeoplethinking I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men. Jane Austen songmenbook There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. Jane Austen hateevilbelieve He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal. Jane Austen equalgentlemandaughter Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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 priderealbelieve 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 honestyinspiringrelationship
