All Jane Austen Quotes
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Cure
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Comfort
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Abbey
- 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… Different Things
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Best Ever
- 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… Brilliant Ideas
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Funny
- There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Charm
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. Appearance
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Best
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Admiration
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Conceal
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Agreeable
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Busy
- The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. Convinced
- 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… Agreeable
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. Able
- 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… Anybody
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Calmness
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Acknowledged
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Affection
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Laugh
- Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Attack
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. All
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. Enjoyment