Jane Austen: Man

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

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

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

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

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

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

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

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

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

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

“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.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“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.”

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”