Jane Austen Quotes

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

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

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

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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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.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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

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

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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.

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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. Jane Austen

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.