Austen Quotes

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m...

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

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

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...

...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of...

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know i...

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and...

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to c...