Jane Austen Quotes

I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

No Amish woman would dare to confide, even in her sister, that a man's very presence made her heart quicken and her senses tingle.

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

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

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

One must not expect every thing.

A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

I dearly love a laugh.

How I hate the sight of an umbrella!

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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.

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.

And this, " cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

Well, well, " said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!

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

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.

Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.