Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Jane Austen quotes, Jane Austen sayings, and Jane Austen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
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How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity.Jane Austen
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Let us have the luxury of silence.Jane Austen
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.Jane Austen
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.Jane Austen
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Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen
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Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.Jane Austen
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Jane Austen
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A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.Jane Austen
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.Jane Austen
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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.Jane Austen
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.Jane Austen
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.Jane Austen
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.Jane Austen
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.Jane Austen
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.Jane Austen
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love youJane Austen
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What strange creatures brothers are!Jane Austen
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.Jane Austen
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.Jane Austen
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The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.Jane Austen
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity, to what we would have others think of us.Jane Austen
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.Jane Austen
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Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.Jane Austen
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I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.Jane Austen
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There 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.Jane Austen