Author Profile
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817 • British • Writer
64
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 64 quotesTo 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
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.— 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.— Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.— Jane Austen
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.— Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.— Jane Austen
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.— Jane Austen
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.— Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.— Jane Austen
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.— Jane Austen
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.— Jane Austen