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Start your year off with these 10 Jane Austen Friendship Quotes!

Jane Austen – the author of such classics as Pride and Prejudice and Emma – is the perfect source for inspiring and memorable quotes about friendship. Here are just a few favorites.

Friendship Quotes from Emma

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” - Emma (The Joyous Living)

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” – Emma

Friendship Quotes from Northanger Abbey

“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.” Northanger Abbey (The Joyous Living) “Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Northanger Abbey (The Joyous Living)

“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.” – Northanger Abbey

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” – Northanger Abbey

Friendship Quotes from Persuasion

“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” - Persuasion (The Joyous Living) “it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.” Persuasion (The Joyous Living)

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“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” – Persuasion

“it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.” – Persuasion

Friendship Quotes from Pride and Prejudice

“I often think,” she said, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. One seems to forlorn without them.” Pride and Prejudice (The Joyous Living) “You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.” Pride and Prejudice (The Joyous Living)

“I often think,” she said, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. One seems to forlorn without them.” – Pride and Prejudice

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.” – Pride and Prejudice

Friendship Quotes from Sense and Sensibility

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.” Sense and Sensibility (The Joyous Living) “But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.” Sense and Sensibility (The Joyous Living)

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.” – Sense and Sensibility

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.” – Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen Quotes about Friendship

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen (The Joyous Living)

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” — Jane Austen (24 December 1798)

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