Jane Austen quotes

" I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. " # Friends and Friendship

" Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. " # Friends and Friendship

" A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. " # Income # Happiness # Success

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. " # Love

" Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. " # Promotion # Arts and Artists # Wealth

" One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. " # Pleasure

" Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. " # Dictators and Dictatorship

" In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. " # Sex # Power # Excellence

" To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. " # Nature # Friends and Friendship # Action

" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? " # Laughter # Neighbors # Sports