Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Quotes

• One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

• Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

• The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.

• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.