Jane Austen Quotes

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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

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

Jane Austen

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen