Quote

Of this she was perfectly unaware to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Jane Austen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Made
Unaware
Men
Agreeable
Handsome
Nowhere
Perfectly
Dance
Thought
Enough

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
I must have my share in the conversation.
Jane Austen
Image
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
Jane Austen
Image
There are secrets in all families.
Jane Austen
Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Jane Austen
Image
I should not mind anything at all.
Jane Austen
Image
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Jane Austen
Image
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Jane Austen
Image
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
Jane Austen
Image
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
Jane Austen
Image
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Jane Austen
Image
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Jane Austen
Image
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
Jane Austen
Image
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
Jane Austen
Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.
Jane Austen
Image
My heart is, and always will be, yours.
Jane Austen
Image
I have read your book, and I disapprove.
Jane Austen
Image
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
Jane Austen
Image
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
Image
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
Jane Austen
Image
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
Jane Austen