Famous Jane Austen Quotes
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 very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane Austen
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen