17 Witty Jane Austen Quotes on Life, Love and Friendship

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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

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