Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
Jane Austen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Spent
Part
Life
Safely
Happiest
Board
Ship
Boards
Ships
More quotes by Jane Austen
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Jane Austen
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Jane Austen
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Jane Austen
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
Jane Austen
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
Marianne was silent it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane Austen
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
Jane Austen
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
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
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
Jane Austen
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.
Jane Austen
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Jane Austen
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
Jane Austen
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.
Jane Austen
I will only add, God bless you.
Jane Austen
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
Jane Austen
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Jane Austen
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
Jane Austen