'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. 'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.' “In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.” 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.' I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. 'From politics, it was an easy step to silence.' Jane Austen Quotes on Love & Friendship The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. 'Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.' 'Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.' Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.'

No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. 'Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. 'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.'

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