Quotes by Jane Austen
73 quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen, British Writer
Was born on 16 dec 1775. Died on 18 jul 1817, at 41 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Quote by Jane Austen about conduct, body, respect, rightness
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Quote by Jane Austen about admiration, imagination, love, moment
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Quote by Jane Austen about happiness
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Quote by Jane Austen about nothing, mind
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Quote by Jane Austen about man, people
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Quote by Jane Austen about woman
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, affair, money
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, affair, money
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Quote by Jane Austen about sport
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Quote by Jane Austen about sport
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, love
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, man
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.
Quote by Jane Austen about education, world
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Quote by Jane Austen about marriage, chance, happiness
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.
Quote by Jane Austen about nature, people, human imperfections, being
