Jane Austen

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Jane Austen

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Jane Austen

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Jane Austen

A woman never looks better than on horseback.

Jane Austen

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Jane Austen

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane Austen

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Jane Austen