FamousQuotes140: Jane Austen

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

An artist cannot do anything slovenly. - Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! - Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. - Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. - Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. - Jane Austen

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. - Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. - Jane Austen #quotes

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Jane Austen #quotes

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. - Jane Austen #quotes

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. - Jane Austen

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Jane Austen #quotes

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. - Jane Austen #quotes

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen #quotes

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. - Jane Austen #quotes

One man's style must not be the rule of another's. - Jane Austen #quotes

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. - Jane Austen #quotes

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. - Jane Austen

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