Jane Austen
21 quotations
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.