Here are fourteen of my favourite Jane Austen quotations (other than the one I’ve adopted as my writing motto ... “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”). I either totally agree with the quotes or snicker each time I read them. I shall leave it to you to speculate which is which.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
- 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.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is not hope of a cure.
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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