Jane Austen Quotes

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

What strange creatures brothers are!

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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.

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

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.