Jane Austen Quotes :
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
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.
Jane Austen
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.
Jane Austen
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Every savage can dance.
Jane Austen
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Jane Austen
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Jane Austen
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.
Jane Austen
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen
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.
Jane Austen
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane Austen
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen