Jane Austen Quotes

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

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.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

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

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

She hated herself more than she could express.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.

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

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

With a book, he was regardless of time.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid

Nothing is more deceitful, " said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

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.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

…she had no resources for solitude…

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

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

What a revolution in her ideas!

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.