Jane Austen Quotes

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

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

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it,
unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced
that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind,
that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it,
than any other person can be.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.