Quote

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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
Advantage
Power
Doe
Best
Negligent
Men
Moderate
Moderates
Superiority
Powers

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
Image
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
Jane Austen
Image
I was quiet but I was not blind.
Jane Austen
Image
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Image
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Jane Austen
Image
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
Jane Austen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.
Jane Austen
Image
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Jane Austen
Image
…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
Jane Austen
Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen
Image
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane Austen
Image
Beware how you give your heart.
Jane Austen
Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
Jane Austen
Image
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
Jane Austen
Image
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
Jane Austen
Image
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Jane Austen
Image
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Jane Austen
Image
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
Jane Austen