Jane Austen Quote

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”  — Jane Austen Source: 1818 book Northanger Abbey (Henry Tilney, Ch. 14)

Jane Austen Quote

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” — Jane Austen Source: 1818 book Northanger Abbey Ch. 4

Jane Austen Quote

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”  — Jane Austen Source: 1818 book Northanger Abbey (Isabella Thorpe, Ch. 6)