Quotes by Jane Austen

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person maybe proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.