Jane Austen Quotes

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

She is loveliness itself.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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

I am all astonishment.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Angry people are not always wise.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

We do not suffer by accident.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback

Let us have the luxury of silence.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.