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Jane Austen Quotes
- In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. ― Jane Austen
- Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. ― Jane Austen
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ― Jane Austen
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ― Jane Austen
- The distance is nothing when one has a motive. ― Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ― Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ― Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ― Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ― Jane Austen
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. ― Jane Austen
Our scars make us know that our past was for real. ― Jane Austen
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ― Jane Austen
We are all fools in love. ― Jane Austen
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. ― Jane Austen
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! ― Jane Austen
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ― Jane Austen
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you. ― Jane Austen
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. ― Jane Austen
A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ― Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ― Jane Austen
Time will explain. ― Jane Austen
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ― Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ― Jane Austen
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! ― Jane Austen
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. ― Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ― Jane Austen
Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ― Jane Austen
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. ― Jane Austen
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. ― Jane Austen
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. ― Jane Austen
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ― Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ― Jane Austen
Angry people are not always wise. ― Jane Austen
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ― Jane Austen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. ― Jane Austen
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. ― Jane Austen
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. ― Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ― Jane Austen
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ― Jane Austen
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all. ― Jane Austen
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison. ― Jane Austen
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first? ― Jane Austen
…but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ― Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ― Jane Austen
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ― Jane Austen
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. ― Jane Austen
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. ― Jane Austen
What are men to rocks and mountains? ― Jane Austen
It is not everyone,’ said Elinor, ‘who has your passion for dead leaves. ― Jane Austen
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. ― Jane Austen
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never. ― Jane Austen
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like. ― Jane Austen
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ― Jane Austen
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone! ― Jane Austen
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. ― Jane Austen
It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. ― Jane Austen
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. ― Jane Austen
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. ― Jane Austen
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best. ― Jane Austen
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. ― Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. ― Jane Austen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. ― Jane Austen
I am excessively diverted. ― Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ― Jane Austen
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. ― Jane Austen
Without music, life would be a blank to me. ― Jane Austen
I have not the pleasure of understanding you. ― Jane Austen
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. ― Jane Austen
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ― Jane Austen
When I fall in love, it will be forever. ― Jane Austen
…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ― Jane Austen
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ― Jane Austen
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. ― Jane Austen
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. ― Jane Austen
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. ― Jane Austen
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. ― Jane Austen
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ― Jane Austen
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. ― Jane Austen
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever. ― Jane Austen
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry. ― Jane Austen
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.’ ‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best. ― Jane Austen
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ― Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ― Jane Austen
You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ― Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ― Jane Austen
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. ― Jane Austen
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ― Jane Austen
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. ― Jane Austen
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. ― Jane Austen
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ― Jane Austen
It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. ― Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. ― Jane Austen
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. ― Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. ― Jane Austen
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ― Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ― Jane Austen
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. ― Jane Austen
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. ― Jane Austen
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. ― Jane Austen
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal. ― Jane Austen
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. ― Jane Austen
Till this moment I never knew myself. ― Jane Austen
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. ― Jane Austen
My good opinion once lost is lost forever. ― Jane Austen
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?” “For the liveliness of your mind, I did. ― Jane Austen
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy. ― Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ― Jane Austen
A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of. ― Jane Austen
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. ― Jane Austen
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. ― Jane Austen
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ― Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. ― Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ― Jane Austen
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them. ― Jane Austen
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. ― Jane Austen
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ― Jane Austen
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? ― Jane Austen
What strange creatures brothers are! ― Jane Austen
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
I cannot make speeches, Emma…If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. ― Jane Austen
