Jane Austen Quotes

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Jane Austen

Profession : Writer

Birth : December 16, 1775

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Jane Austen

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

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

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

Jane Austen