88 Quotations by Jane Austen
- 1. "Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, i ...

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

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

- 4. A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

- 5. A woman should never be trusted with money.

- 6. A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she ...

- 7. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh ...

- 8. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe ...

- 9. An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

- 10. An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care ...

- 11. At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anyt ...

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

- 13. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prev ...

- 14. Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

- 15. Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

- 16. Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recove ...

- 17. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

- 18. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

- 19. From politics it was an easy step to silence.

- 20. Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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