Quote

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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
Short
World
Prettiest
Trial
Trials
Convinced

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
Jane Austen
Image
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.
Jane Austen
Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable that one false step involves her in endless ruin that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
Jane Austen
Image
Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
Jane Austen
Image
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
Jane Austen
Image
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
Jane Austen
Image
She attracted him more than he liked.
Jane Austen
Image
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane Austen
Image
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
Jane Austen
Image
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
Image
One word from you shall silence me forever.
Jane Austen
Image
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
Jane Austen
Image
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
Jane Austen
Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one but I always speak what I think.
Jane Austen
Image
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Jane Austen
Image
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
Image
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
Jane Austen
Image
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
Jane Austen
Image
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Jane Austen
Image
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Jane Austen