Quotes by Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

— Jane Austen

Love

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

Truth

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

— Jane Austen

Hope

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

— Jane Austen

Love

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

— Jane Austen

Success

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

— Jane Austen

Life

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

Education

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

— Jane Austen

Love

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

— Jane Austen

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

— Jane Austen

Success