The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENThere is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
More Jane Austen Quotes
-
-
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN -
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN -
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
JANE AUSTEN -
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
JANE AUSTEN -
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTEN -
I was quiet but I was not blind.
JANE AUSTEN -
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
JANE AUSTEN -
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN -
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN -
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTEN -
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTEN -
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTEN -
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
JANE AUSTEN -
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
JANE AUSTEN -
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
JANE AUSTEN