Jane Austen Quotes
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
English novelist
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
English novelist
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
English novelist
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
English novelist
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.
Jane Austen
English novelist
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.
Jane Austen
English novelist
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.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
English novelist
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
English novelist
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
English novelist
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen
English novelist
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
English novelist
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
English novelist
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
English novelist
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
English novelist
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.
Jane Austen
English novelist
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