Jane Austen

“Facts are such horrid things!”

— Jane Austen

“This was invitation enough.”

— Jane Austen

“Fix, commit, condemn yourself”

— Jane Austen

“He looks miserable poor soul!”

— Jane Austen

There are secrets in all families.

— Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

— Jane Austen

Success supposes endeavour.

— Jane Austen

Time will explain.

— Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

— Jane Austen

“Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

— Jane Austen

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

— Jane Austen

“Fanny’s friendship was all that he had to cling to.”

— Jane Austen

“...and, my dear aunt, if you do not tell me in an honourable manner, I shall certainly be reduced to tricks and…

— Jane Austen

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it…

— Jane Austen

“I will venture to say that my investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears.”

— Jane Austen

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

— Jane Austen

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

— Jane Austen

never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as…

— Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

— Jane Austen

“A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.”

— Jane Austen

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to…

— Jane Austen

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world,…

— Jane Austen

“We are all disposed to wonder--but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no…

— Jane Austen

“He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was…

— Jane Austen

“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and…

— Jane Austen

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so…

— Jane Austen

“I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have.…

— Jane Austen

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,…

— Jane Austen

“The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both. At the…

— Jane Austen

“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of…

— Jane Austen

“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! If any one faculty of our…

— Jane Austen

“When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised,…

— Jane Austen

“misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows that I am wretched. The triumph of seeing me so…

— Jane Austen

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its…

— Jane Austen

“connected with my fable—that this was the very gentleman whose negligent servant left behind him that collection of washing-bills, resulting from a…

— Jane Austen

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man…

— Jane Austen