Jane Austen: "Nature is wont to hide herself."

About 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

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

—Jane Austen

money

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

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

—Jane Austen

marriage

All people want is someone to listen.

—Jane Austen

friendship

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

—Jane Austen

excellence

More quotations tagged with “nature”

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

—Heraclitus

nature

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

nature

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

—E. B. White

nature

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

—Daniel Webster

nature

Nature does nothing uselessly.

—Aristotle

nature

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11 Jul 2015 Added