Jane Austen - Quodid

About

Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Quotes from Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

—Jane Austen

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

—Jane Austen

love friendship relief

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

—Jane Austen

silliness sensible

History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. . . . I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good-for-nothing, and hardly any women at all.

—Jane Austen

war history power women men kings pestilence

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 in Pride and Prejudice

courage

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

—Jane Austen

people agreement fondness

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

—Jane Austen

excellence

All people want is someone to listen.

—Jane Austen

friendship

One man's folly is another man's wife.

—Jane Austen

marriage

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. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

—Jane Austen

memory

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

—Jane Austen

money

Nature is wont to hide herself.

—Jane Austen

nature

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

—Jane Austen

religion

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

—Jane Austen

relaxation

Books

Jane Austen has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Pride and Prejudice