Jane Austen Quotes

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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

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

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

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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.

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

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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.

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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.

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