Jane Austen Quotes

British - Writer December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Jane Austen