Here are the best quotes from Jane Austen (1775-1817), a British novelist whose best-known works are Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility.
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-There is no charm equal to 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 thing.
-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. A person can be proud without being vain. Pride is more related to our opinion of ourselves: vanity, to what we would like others to think of us.
-I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not coincide point by point with mine. He must penetrate all my feelings; We must both love the same books, the same music.
-The person, be it a man or woman, who does not take pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
-Egoism must always be forgiven, because there is no hope of cure.
-There are people who 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 it is that separates appreciation from love.
-The lack of generosity of his relatives leads him to wonder at finding friendship elsewhere.
-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 time or occasion that determines intimacy: it is only the character, the disposition of the people.
-The imagination of a young lady is very fast; jump 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 cannot always be laughing with a man without every once in a while stumbling upon something ingenious.
- I believe that in every individual there is a certain tendency to a certain evil, to an innate defect, that not even the best education can overcome.
-Each man is surrounded by a neighborhood of volunteer spies.
-Sometimes you let yourself 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'm only willing to act in the most consistent way, in my opinion, with my future happiness, regardless of what you or anyone else equally alien to me, thinks.
-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 bearing on you, unless it supported your wishes."
-When people engage in a form of behavior they know is 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 enough heart 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 disheveled.
-For a specific person you should not alter the meaning of principle and integrity, or try to convince yourself or me that selfishness is prudence or that insensitivity to danger is an insurance of happiness.
-I can't speak well enough to be unintelligible.
-A project that in all its parts promises said, never goes well; and you cannot get rid of some setback if you don't have a little setback.
-There is something so sweet in the prejudices of a young mind that one feels sorry to see how they give way and make way for 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.
-Unmarried 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 but lack of opinion, and sometimes it is an indirect way of boasting
-He must have all that, and even something more substantial, by perfecting his intelligence thanks to very extensive readings.
-But as long as people allow themselves to be carried away by their imagination to form wrong judgments about our behavior and qualify it based on mere appearances, our happiness will always be at the mercy of chance.
-May no one presume to know how to translate the feelings of a young woman by obtaining the security of a love for which she hardly dared to hope
-A great income is the best recipe for happiness I have ever heard of.
-I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not always coincide with mine. He 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 with a great fortune needs a wife.
-It often happens that a woman is more beautiful at twenty-nine than at twenty. And generally, if you have not suffered any illness or endured any moral ailments, it is a time of life in which you have rarely lost any charm.
-How soon reasons arise to approve what we like!