Jane Austen Quotes

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen

Home, Nothing, Real

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Person, May, Words

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen

Forgiveness, Hope, Forgiven

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Friendship, Love, Finest

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen

Good, Stupid, Person

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

Happiness, Best, Heard

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen

Themselves, Less

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen

Good, Great, Idea

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen

Education, Girl, Give

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen

Nothing, Humility, Sometimes

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Woman, May, Done

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen

Woman, She, Knowing

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen

Heart, Equal, Charm

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

Talk, Able, Loved

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

Love, Moment, Lady

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen

Life, Busy, Seems

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

Love, Shall, Convinced

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

Great, Trouble, Deal

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

Happy, May, Study

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen

Others, State, Turn

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

Men, Good, Truth

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Nature, Perfect, Fine

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen

Love, Step, Dancing

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen

Live, Laugh, Turn

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

Long, Person, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16, 1775

Died: July 28, 1817

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