Jane Austen Quotes

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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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

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.