Best 36 Jane Austen Meaningful Audio Quotes Wise Words. Female ♀ Voice & Male ♂ Pronunciation

“ One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ”– Jane Austen

“ Nothing is more deceitful… than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.” – Jane Austen.

“ A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”– Jane Austen

“ For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”– Jane Austen

“ But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.”– Jane Austen

“ 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

“ I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”– Jane Austen

“ Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”– Jane Austen

“ It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”- Jane Austen

“ 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

“ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”- Jane Austen

“ If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”– Jane Austen

“ Good-humored, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”– Jane Austen

“ There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”– Jane Austen

“ Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”– Jane Austen

“ It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”– Jane Austen

“ I am very much flattered by your commendation of my last letter, for I write only for fame, and without any view to pecuniary emolument.”– Jane Austen

“ People get so horridly poor & economical in this part of the world, that I have no patience with them… Kent is the only place for happiness.”– Jane Austen

“ Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”– Jane Austen

“ A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”– Jane Austen

“ Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”– Jane Austen

“ I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”- Jane Austen

“ When people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half-minute seems like five.”– Jane Austen

“ A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”– Jane Austen

“ I knew that we should either go to the bottom together or that she would be the making of me.”– Jane Austen

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

“ At nineteen, you know, one does not think very seriously.”– Jane Austen

“ What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”– Jane Austen

“ Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”– Jane Austen

“ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”– Jane Austen

“ When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”– Jane Austen

“ The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”– Jane Austen

“ I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.” – Jane Austen

“ Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”– Jane Austen

“ I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”– Jane Austen