Jane Austen Quotes
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist. Their most powerful quotes on life, success and human nature are collected here for daily inspiration and reflection.
"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."
-- Jane Austen"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
-- Jane Austen"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
-- Jane Austen"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
-- Jane Austen"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-- Jane Austen"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
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Jane Austen was an English novelist. Their most powerful quotes on life, success and human nature are collected here for daily inspiration and reflection.
One of Jane Austen's most widely shared quotes is: "Time will explain.".
On mindset, Jane Austen said: "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.".
On philosophy, Jane Austen said: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.".
Jane Austen's quotes endure because they turn ideas about Mindset, Philosophy, Wisdom, Success into clear, memorable language that is easy to relate to and share.
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