Jane Austen Quotations

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Religion]

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Religion]

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Money]

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Love] [Marriage]

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Love] [Friendship]

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Love]

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Love]

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Love]

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Clothing]

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Memory]

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	more quotations on [Time]

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Relaxation] [Nature]

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Letters]

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
	- Jane Austen	more quotations on [Pleasure]

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