Jane Austen: Man

Jane Austen was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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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!”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“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.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“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.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

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

Jane Austen

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

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

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“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.”

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“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.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility