One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Witty Quotes

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

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

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

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May...

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...