Jane Austen Quotes

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

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There are secrets in all families.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation—of all the conflicts and the sacrifices that enno ble us most. A sick room may often furnish the worth of volumes.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.