Jane Austen Quotes

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for." ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge." ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Emma by Jane Austen "Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise." ~ Emma by Jane Austen "It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble." ~ Emma by Jane Austen