Quotes by Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
