Source: Northanger abbey
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Famous Jane Austen Quotes
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Source: Mansfield Park
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”
Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)
Source: Northanger abbey
“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
Source: Emma
“I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
Source: Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“One man's style must not be the rule of another's.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
Source: Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”
Source: Mansfield Park
Source: Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes
“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
Source: Northanger abbey
Source: Emma: A Novel
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
Source: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Source: Mansfield Park
“Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.”
Source: Letters of Jane Austen: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”
Source: Jane Austen's Letters
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations