Jane Austen

Jane Austen

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
134 Quotes
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
Jane Austen
"The less said the better."
Jane Austen
"I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle."
Jane Austen
"Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard."
Jane Austen
"A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill."
Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Jane Austen
"That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself."
Jane Austen
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?"
Jane Austen
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
Jane Austen
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
Jane Austen
"Where an opinion is general it is usually correct."
Jane Austen
"Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health."
Jane Austen
"And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne."
Jane Austen
"Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination."
Jane Austen
"I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping."
Jane Austen
"It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant."
Jane Austen
"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
Jane Austen
"Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy"
Jane Austen
"Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge"
Jane Austen
"Time will explain."
Jane Austen Persuasion
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