Jane Austen - Man Quotes

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We spent Friday evening with our friends at the boarding-house, and our curiosity was gratified by the sight of their fellow-inmates, Mrs. Drew and Miss Hook, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Fitzhugh; the latter is brother to Mrs. Lance, and very much the gentleman. He has lived in that house more than twenty years, and poor man, is so totally deaf that they say he could not hear a cannon, were it fired close to him; having no cannon at hand to make the experiment, I took it for granted, and talked to him a little with my fingers, which was funny enough.

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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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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

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

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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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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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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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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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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

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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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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant...

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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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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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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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

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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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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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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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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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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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