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.

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

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

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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.

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

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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.

You have delighted us long enough.

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

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart.

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.

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

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!