JANE AUSTEN QUOTES VI

English novelist (1775-1817)

There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park


The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

Tags: London


Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.

JANE AUSTEN

letter to Cassandra Austen, May 12, 1801


Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma


It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma


It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey


I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

JANE AUSTEN

letter to Cassandra Austen, Dec. 24, 1798


We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

Tags: conscience


How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park