Quotes By Jane Austen

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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

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.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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.

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

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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

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.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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