Jane-austen Quotes

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the w...

[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the grea...

You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in yo...

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...

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

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...

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

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...

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

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

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

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

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

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings...

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by mano...

Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all ho...

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with a...

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never p...

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

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

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandest...

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutua...

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unaltera...

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too c...

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepare...

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can ma...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is ...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enou...

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...

Angry people are not always wise.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

I dearly love a laugh.

My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

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

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

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

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