“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“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.”
Good“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Men“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
Truth“A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Imagination“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
Best“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Friendship“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.”
Education“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Best“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Nature“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Nature“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Happiness“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
Women“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
Women“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
Beauty“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Home“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women