Quotes by Jane Austen

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

#Politics

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

#Men And Women

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

#Business, #Friendship

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

#Parents

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

#Witty

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

#Witty

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

#Love

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

#Anger, #Diversity, #Evil

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided...

#Books

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

#Books

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

#Excellence, #Power, #Sex

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the...

#Power