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title: "7 Short Quotes By Jane Austen"
description: "7 Short quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Short sayings from other authors."
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> [but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-for-my-own-part-if-a-book-is-well-written-i-always-find-it-too/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/if-a-book-is-well-written-i-would-find-it-too-short/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/if-a-book-is-well-written-i-always-find-it-too-short/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [ “\[I\]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-f-a-book-is-well-written-i-always-find-it-too-short/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/if-a-book-is-well-written-i-always-find-it-to-short/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-was-a-delightful-visit-perfect-in-being-much-too-short/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-had-nothing-to-wish-otherwise-but-that-the-days-did-not-pass-so/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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## Other authors on Short

## More by Jane Austen

> [Let us have the luxury of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/let-us-have-the-luxury-of-silence/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/how-earnestly-did-she-then-wish-that-her-former-opinions-had-been/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-very-well-worth-while-to-be-tormented-for-two-or-three-years-of/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [ “Everybody is taken in at some period or another. \[...\] In marriage especially. \[...\] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or-another-in-marriage/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-knew-that-what-marianne-and-her-mother-conjectured-one-moment/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/for-i-look-upon-the-frasers-to-be-about-as-unhappy-as-most-other/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-raises-my-spleen-more-than-any-thing-to-have-the-pretence-of-being/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-spirits-wanted-the-solitude-and-silence-which-only-numbers-could/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-in-such-cases-as-these-a-good-memory-is-unpardonable/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-pleasantness-of-an-employment-does-not-always-evince-its-propriety/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-squeamish-youths-as-cannot-bear-to-be-connected-with-a-little/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-must-tell-you-what-you-will-not-ask-though-i-may-wish-it-unsaid-the/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-seemed-quite-astonished-at-not-receiving-a-direct/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-had-suffered-and-he-had-learnt-to-think-two-advantages-that-he-had/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

> [“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-eliot-s-character/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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