Quotes By Jane Austen

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

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

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

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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.

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.

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.

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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