Jane Austen - Man Quotes

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.

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Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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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.

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There are such beings in the world — perhaps one in a thousand — as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

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Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.

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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.

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

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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

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"He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete."

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

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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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A man... must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.

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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

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

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.

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Heaven forbid! — That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay every thing open.

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