Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Jane Austen:

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"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."

"Everybody likes to go their own way to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

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

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. T"

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