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Jane Austen [1775-1817] British

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems), Novelist

Gothic, Realism

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Friendship, Good, Marriage, Nature, Women, Business, Education, Happiness, Sports, Truth, Alone, Beauty, Best, Chance, Forgiveness, Great, Home, Hope, Imagination, Love, Men, Money, Moving On, Politics, Power, Respect, Romantic

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.	Romantic	90
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.	Good, Great	101
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.		103
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.	Men, Women	104
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.	Nature	105
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.	Friendship, Love, Moving On	106
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.		107
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.	Nature	108
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.		109
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Good, Marriage, Truth	110
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.		111
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.	Best, Happiness	112
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.		113
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.	Beauty	114
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.		115
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.		116
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.		117
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?		118
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.	Alone	119
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.		120
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.	Imagination	121
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.		122
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.		123
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.		124
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.	Truth	125
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.	Power	126
Every savage can dance.		201
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.	Business	202
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.	Sports	203
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.		204
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.	Politics	205
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?	Sports	206
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.		207
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.	Marriage	208
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.		209
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.	Nature	210
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.	Chance, Happiness, Marriage	211
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.	Business, Friendship, Money	212
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.		213
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.	Women	214
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.	Home	215
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.		216
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.		217
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.	Forgiveness, Hope	218
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.	Friendship	219
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.	Education	220
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.		221
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.	Women	222
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.		223
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.		224
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.		225
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.		226
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.		301
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.		302
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.		303
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.		304
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.		305
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.		306
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.		307
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.		308
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.		309
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.		310
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.	Good	311
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.		312
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.		313
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.		314
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.		315
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.	Education	316
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!		317
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.		318
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.		319
Those who do not complain are never pitied.		320
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.		321
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.		322
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.		323
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.		324
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.	Respect	325
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.		326
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?		401
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.		402
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!		403
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.		404
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.		405
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.		406
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.		407
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.		408
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.		409
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.		410

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