Friendship Quotes by Jane Austen

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”

— Jane Austen

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

— Jane Austen

“Fanny’s friendship was all that he had to cling to.”

— Jane Austen

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

— Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

— Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

— Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

— Jane Austen

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

— Jane Austen

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she…

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of…

— Jane Austen

“I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between…

— Jane Austen

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

— Jane Austen

“I must be more in want of a friend, or an agreeable companion, than I have yet been, to take the trouble…

— Jane Austen

“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more…

— Jane Austen

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

— Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit… To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of…

— Jane Austen

“Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able…

— Jane Austen

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are…

— Jane Austen

“Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as…

— Jane Austen

“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as…

— Jane Austen

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.…

— Jane Austen

“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of…

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“Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends…

— Jane Austen

“This little bag I hope will prove To be not vainly made-- For, if you should a needle want It will afford…

— Jane Austen

“Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company…

— Jane Austen

“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike…

— Jane Austen

“Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to…

— Jane Austen

“I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks…

— Jane Austen

She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it…

— Jane Austen

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a…

— Jane Austen

“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure…

— Jane Austen

“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,…

— Jane Austen

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation…

— Jane Austen

“You are a very warm friend to Mr. Martin; but, as I said before, are unjust to Harriet. ... Waiving that point,…

— Jane Austen

“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her…

— Jane Austen

“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my…

— Jane Austen

“At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather.”

— Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

— Jane Austen

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

— Jane Austen

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

— Jane Austen