Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen Quote of the day

Angry people are not always wise.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

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

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

I dearly love a laugh.

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

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

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

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

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

Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?

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

Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.

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.

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

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

I can't settle for merely liking a man when I've known what it’s like to love one.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.

Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

These were reflections that required some time to soften

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.

He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love."(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation

I suppose I look acceptable, the black (haired) sheep among the Barrett blondes.

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

He shortly found himself arrived at politics

...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree

You deserve a longer letter than this

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

I beg your pardon