Jane Austen

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen is an English novelist whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Whether reflecting on Women or Nature, Jane Austen brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Discover 37 of Jane Austen's most memorable quotes, ranging across Women, Nature, Great, Friendship, and Best. Consider this gem from Jane Austen: "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

— Jane Austen

Women

All Quotes by Jane Austen

“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.”

— Jane Austen

Truth

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

— Jane Austen

Happiness

“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”

— Jane Austen

Respect

“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

Good

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

— Jane Austen

Home

“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

Men

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

— Jane Austen

Education

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

— Jane Austen

Good

“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”

— Jane Austen

Nature

“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

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

— Jane Austen

Great

“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.”

— Jane Austen

Beauty

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

— Jane Austen

Friendship

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

— Jane Austen

Women

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

— Jane Austen

Business

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

— Jane Austen

Best

“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

— Jane Austen

Women

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

— Jane Austen

Best

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

— Jane Austen

Women

“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”

— Jane Austen

Politics