Quotes Jane Austen

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration...

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

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and c...

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

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing a...

An artist cannot do anything slovenly....

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged....

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly e...

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hard...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive...

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, a...

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of dis...

From politics, it was an easy step to silence....

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man ...

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who h...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance....

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in in...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not ...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible....

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that tr...