Jane Austen Quotes

  • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Upload to Facebook
    The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Upload to Facebook
    There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
    ~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...
    ~ Jane Austen
  • The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • Angry people are not always wise.
    ~ Jane Austen
  • With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
    ~ Jane Austen
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