Top 20 quotes from Jane Austen

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Top 20 quotes from Jane Austen


Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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


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

Jane Austen


We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen


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

Jane Austen


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


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


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

Jane Austen


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

Jane Austen


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

Jane Austen


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

Jane Austen


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

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


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


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

Jane Austen


We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen


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

Jane Austen


Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen


There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

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Top 20 quotes from Jane Austen