Quote

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

Jane Austen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Love
Instruct
Worth
Teach
Knowing
Though

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
Jane Austen
Image
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
Jane Austen
Image
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
Jane Austen
Image
My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Jane Austen
Image
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Jane Austen
Image
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
Jane Austen
Image
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.
Jane Austen
Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
Jane Austen
Image
We neither of us perform to strangers.
Jane Austen
Image
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Jane Austen
Image
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.
Jane Austen
Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen
Image
About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Jane Austen
Image
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen
Image
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
Jane Austen
Image
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
Jane Austen
Image
Nay, cried Bingley, this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
Jane Austen
Image
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
Image
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
Image
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen