Jane Austen quotes

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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.

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

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.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.