Jane Austen on Friendship
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Jane Austen, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #450: "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."
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #156113: "The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine."
4 Quotes by Jane Austen on Friendship
"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."
"The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine."
"The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me."
"We spent Friday evening with our friends at the boarding-house, and our curiosity was gratified by the sight of their fellow-inmates, Mrs. Drew and Miss Hook, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Fitzhugh; the latter is brother to Mrs. Lance, and very much the gentleman. He has lived in that house more than twenty years, and poor man, is so totally deaf that they say he could not hear a cannon, were it fired close to him; having no cannon at hand to make the experiment, I took it for granted, and talked to him a little with my fingers, which was funny enough."