Quotes by Jane Austen

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

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

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