Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen Quotes.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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
To 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
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
I was quiet but I was not blind.
Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Every savage can dance.
Jane Austen

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