“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.”
NatureAll 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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Nature“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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Business“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.”
Nature“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Marriage“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Happiness“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Friendship“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Forgiveness“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
Alone“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Nature“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
Women“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“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women“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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Best“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Best