Bluestockings have been avid Jane Austen fans from the beginning. It makes sense: Still cogent today, her literary wisdom is endowed with a unique wry humor, a characteristic beloved by Bas Bleu readers. If you love Jane Austen, you’ll love this little collection of fifteen witty quotes, and you might also be interested in the related products linked in the page margins. Read on, Austen aficionados!

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
from Emma

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.”
from Sense and Sensibility

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
from Mansfield Park

“One cannot have too large a party.”
from Emma

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”
from Love and Friendship

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.”
from Northanger Abbey

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
from Emma

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”
from Mansfield Park

“I wish, as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
from Sense and Sensibility

“Every savage can dance.”
from Pride and Prejudice

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
from Emma

“Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.”
from a letter to Fanny Knight