Jane Austen Clever Quotations

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

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.