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

About Jane Austen

Portrait of Jane Austen

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.

More quotations from Jane Austen

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

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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

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.

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

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

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