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."

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

— Jane Austen

Respect

All Quotes by Jane Austen

“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

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

— Jane Austen

Respect

“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

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

— Jane Austen

Women

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

— Jane Austen

Politics

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

— Jane Austen

Best

“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.”

— Jane Austen

Alone

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

— Jane Austen

Business

“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

“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”

— Jane Austen

Best

“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”

— Jane Austen

Marriage

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

— Jane Austen

Women

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

— Jane Austen

Nature

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”

— Jane Austen

Friendship

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

— Jane Austen

Happiness

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

— Jane Austen

Best

“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

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

— Jane Austen

Home

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

— Jane Austen

Good

“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.”

— Jane Austen

Nature