[ jane austen Quotes ]
21 Quotations
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
[ Money ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
[ Neighbors ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
[ Neighbors ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
[ Work ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
[ Affection ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
[ Marriage ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
[ Pity ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
[ Ridicule ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
[ Pleasure ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
[ Cities and City Life ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
[ Reserve ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
[ Complaints and Complaining ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
[ Nature ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
[ Cities and City Life ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
[ Weather ]
Jane Austen
29 votes
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
[ Men and Women ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
