Quotes by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

English writer

Alive from: 1775-1817

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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  A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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  I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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  A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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

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  A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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

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  Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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  For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

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

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  From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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  Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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  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.

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  I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
  

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  I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
  Source: Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters