Jane Austen Quotes

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might b...

One must not expect every thing.

Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was...

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowi...

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it ma...

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and pres...

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons...

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other ...

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart...

She was stronger alone…

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subject...

…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects...

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection wou...

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be av...

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember t...

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must ent...

Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne w...

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her hus...

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years o...

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to esc...

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be i...

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...

If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to-- Dea...

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occ...

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which ...

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years wo...

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in bu...

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its h...

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly an...

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marian...

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. ...

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consci...

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first nig...

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart ...

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the pr...

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

When shall I cease to regret you! – When learn to feel a home elsewhere! – Oh! Happy house, could yo...

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first define...

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forg...

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have h...

But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good ...

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloo...

Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, woul...

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the ...

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty ...

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that...

She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as...

But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received i...

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said...

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was t...

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be i...

With a book he was regardless of time...

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fu...

When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recove...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are...

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before...

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade mysel...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish prepara...

There is no other enjoyment like reading

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish prepara...

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from y...

With a book he was regardless of time.

I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I supp...

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the gr...

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong ...