Jane Austen Quotes

You have delighted us long enough.
- Jane Austen

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
- Jane Austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- Jane Austen

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

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
- Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation. Foolish preparation?
- Jane Austen

The less said the better.
- Jane Austen

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane Austen

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
- Jane Austen

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
- Jane Austen