Jane Austen

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Jane Austen

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Jane Austen

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Jane Austen

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Jane Austen

I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen