Jane Austen's Quotes

Jane Austen's Quotes 28

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world as there...

Good-humoured unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very...

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Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure...

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early...

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a...

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an...

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I do not want people to be very agreeable as it saves me the trouble of...

My idea of good company is the company of clever well-informed people who...

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel...

General benevolence but not general friendship made a man what he ought to...

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has...

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

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

One man's ways may be as good as another's but we all like our own best.

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