
List of quotes from Jane Austen
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
by Jane Austen
"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
by Jane Austen Letter to Cassandra
"Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown."
by Emma Jane Austen
"A woman should never be trusted with money."
by Jane Austen The Watsons
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
by Jane Austen Mansfield Park
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."
by from a letter to her niece Jane Austen
"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
by Jane Austen
"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."
by Jane Austen
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
by Emma Jane Austen
"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
by Emma Jane Austen
"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other."
by Jane Austen
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey