Best Quotes by Jane Austen (Top 10)

  1. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
  2. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
  3. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
  4. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
  5. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  6. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
  7. What are men to rocks and mountains?
  8. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
  9. I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
  10. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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