por Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a British novelist considered by critics to belong to the classic English novel. Although she has been classified as a conservative writer, the feminist movement has rescued her for her acute perception of women’s education.
Her novels are apparently naive, but in them lies a certain criticism and mockery of the English Georgian society of the time: none of her protagonists is very interested in pleasing potential husband candidates. Austen has transcended time and is still being read by current readers, who find in her books a delicious irony that makes them contemporary.
We have made a selection of the best Jane Austen quotesauthor of famous novels such as pride and prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility.
The best quotes from Jane Austen
-There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart.
-There are no distances when you have a reason.
-There is nothing like being at home for true comfort.
-Of the past you do not have to remember more than the pleasant.
-My idea of good company is the company of intelligent, well-informed people who have a great conversation; That’s what I call good company.
-Vanity and pride are different things, although the words are often used synonymously.
-I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not coincide point by point with mine.
-The person, be it a lord or lady, who does not take pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
-Selfishness must always be forgiven, because there is no hope of a cure.
-There are people, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
-I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, although not in principle.
-Being fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Angry people are not always wise.
-Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I still don’t know what separates appreciation from love.
-The lack of generosity of his relatives leads him to be surprised to find friendship in other places.
-Respect for correct conduct is felt by everyone.
-If I loved you less, I would be able to talk about it less.
-It is not the time or the occasion that determine intimacy: it is only the character, the disposition of the people.
-A young lady’s imagination is very fast; she jumps from admiration to love and from love to marriage in a moment.
-When an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
-A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of not knowing anything, should hide it as best she can.
-Friendship is undoubtedly the best balm for the pain of love disappointment.
«You can’t always be laughing with a man without occasionally stumbling upon something witty.»
-I believe that in every individual there is a certain tendency to a certain evil, to an innate defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
-Each man is surrounded by a neighborhood of volunteer spies.
-Sometimes one lets oneself be guided by what people say about themselves, and very often by what others say about them, without taking time to deliberate and discern.
-I am only willing to act in the most consistent way, in my opinion, with my future happiness, without taking into account what you or any other person equally alien to me, think.
-Business can bring you money, but friends rarely do.
«I could easily forgive your pride, if you hadn’t mortified mine.»
«You know perfectly well that my opinion would have no weight with you unless I supported your wishes.»
-When people engage in a form of behavior that they know to be wrong, they feel aggrieved when something better is expected of them.
-Normally we all start with a slight preference, and that can be simply because, without reason; but there are very few who have so much heart as to fall in love without being stimulated.
-One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other half.
-An artist cannot do anything scruffy.
-For a specific person you must not upset the meaning of principle and integrity, nor try to convince yourself or me that selfishness is prudence or that insensitivity to danger is a guarantee of happiness.
-I can’t speak well enough to be unintelligible.
-A project that in all its parts promises happiness, never goes well; and you can’t get rid of some setback, if you don’t have a small setback.
There is something so sweet about the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to more common opinions.
-The more I know about the world, the more I am convinced that I will never see a man whom I can truly love.
Single women have a terrible propensity to be poor. Which is a very strong argument in favor of marriage.
-Happiness in marriage is a matter of chance.
-Nothing is more deceptive than the appearance of humility. Usually it is nothing more than lack of opinion, and sometimes it is a roundabout way of boasting.
-He has to possess all that, and even something more substantial, by perfecting his intelligence thanks to some very extensive reading.
-But as long as people allow themselves to be carried away by their imaginations to form wrong judgments about our behavior and qualify it based on mere appearances, our happiness will always be at the mercy of chance.
-Let no one presume to know how to translate the feelings of a young woman by obtaining the security of a love for which they barely dared to keep a hope.
-A large income is the best recipe for happiness I’ve ever heard of.
-I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not coincide at all times with mine. I would have to participate in all my feelings. The same books, the same music would bewitch us both.
-It is a universally known truth that a single man possessing a great fortune needs a wife.
-It often happens that a woman is prettier at twenty-nine than at twenty. And generally, if she has not suffered any disease or endured any moral suffering, it is a time of life when she has seldom lost any charm.
-How soon reasons arise to approve what we like!
-I don’t want people to be nice, so it saves me the trouble of becoming fond of them.
-Our scars let us know that our past was real.
-Without music, life would be a blank space for me.
-Men have the power to choose. Women, to reject.