Jane Austen Quotes: 13 Sayings To Celebrate ‘Pride And Prejudice’ Novelist’s Birthday

Saturday marks the 242nd birthday of Novelist Jane Austen — the author who paved the way for the progressive mindset of women, with novels like "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Emma," among others.

Apart from her novels which have become the epitome of 18^th Century feminism movement, some of her quotes have become popular over the ages, giving us a deeper understanding of the person that Austen was. Here are a few of her sayings from Brainy Quote:

“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly to the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”