Jane Austen
- Jane Austen in silhouette
Quoting Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen
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Angry people are not always wise.
– Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
– Jane Austen
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I am glad the new cook begins so well. Good apple pies are a considerable part or our domestic happiness.
– Jane Austen
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings and there many often be a great deal more sufferted than a stander-by can judge of.
– Jane Austen
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
– Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen
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One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
– Jane Austen
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~Jane Austen
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
– Jane Austen
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We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
– Jane Austen
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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
~Jane Austen
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