Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
Jane Austen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Looking
Idea
Ideas
Must
Really
Harden
Begin
Worth
More quotes by Jane Austen
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
Jane Austen
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
Jane Austen
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
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
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Jane Austen
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
Jane Austen
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
Jane Austen
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Jane Austen
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
Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
Jane Austen
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
Jane Austen
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
Jane Austen
There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
Jane Austen
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference? - Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Austen
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Jane Austen
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
Jane Austen
