Jane Austen quotes

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! (Jane Austen)
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. (Jane Austen)
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
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
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. (Jane Austen)
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
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen