Jane Austen Quotes

The less said the better.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

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.

I am excessively diverted.

You have delighted us long enough.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

We are all fools in love.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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