Jane Austen Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

• I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Opinion, Manners

  Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.400, Harvard University Press

• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Forever, Forgiving, Vices

  "Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

• Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Hands, Facts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

• Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Men, Self

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL PRESS

• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

  Jane Austen

  Opinion, Accounts, Mines

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

• Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Missing, Understanding

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1304, Ageless Reads

• It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Prejudice, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.292, Wordsworth Editions

• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

• My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Mean, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing

• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Believe, Pride

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

• Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

  Jane Austen

  Feelings, Opinion, Reason

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

• It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Men, Principles

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.386, Re-Image Publishing

• What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, One Day, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.89, Wild Jot Press

• Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Opinion, Favourite

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

• Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Opinion, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

• [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Gowns, Sides

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1205, Simon and Schuster

• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.95

• At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Change, Opinion

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.217

• It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Circles, Differences

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

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