17 Witty Jane Austen Quotes on Life, Love and Friendship

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

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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.

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.

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

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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

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.

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

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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

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.

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?

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.