Jane Austen Inspiring Quotes

Quotes about: Inspiring

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Vanity, Weak

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.21, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, People, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.945, Ageless Reads

• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Women, Humor

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 24 Dec. 1798
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  There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girly, Healing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.343, MobileReference

• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

• One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Men, Style

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.571, MobileReference

• I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Literature, Speak

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.41, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Done, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.245, MobileReference

• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Courage, Women

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.79, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Writing, Long

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

• Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

  Jane Austen

  Relationship, Inspiring, Honesty

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.249

• An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Artist

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.21, Oxford University Press

• Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.287

• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

• They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Taste

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.636, Ageless Reads

• It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Beauty, Years

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.1379, Jane Austen

• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Interesting Situations

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.159

• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Busy, Mansfield Park

• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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