Jane Austen

We do not suffer by accident.

— Jane Austen

“...joy, senseless joy!”

— Jane Austen

I walk: I prefer walking.

— Jane Austen

“I am worn out with civility.”

— Jane Austen

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

“Edmund was all in all. Fanny”

— Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

— Jane Austen

Too many cooks spoil the broth

— Jane Austen

“It is anger to be talked of, rather than felt.”

— Jane Austen

“You have another long walk before you.”

— Jane Austen

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

— Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

— Jane Austen

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

— Jane Austen

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

— Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility”

— Jane Austen

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

— Jane Austen

“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”

— Jane Austen

“You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make…

— Jane Austen

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have…

— Jane Austen

“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible…

— Jane Austen

“You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.  —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that…

— Jane Austen

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think…

— Jane Austen

“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,…

— Jane Austen

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.…

— Jane Austen

“Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us,…

— Jane Austen

“He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst…

— Jane Austen

“Cu siguranta, nu-l ura. Nu, ura trecuse cu mult timp in urma si cam tot de atunci se nascuse senzatia de rusine…

— Jane Austen

“I see what you think of me,' said he, gravely; 'I shall make but a poor figure in your journal to-morrow.' My…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Može li iko upoznati nečiju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako…

— Jane Austen

“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has…

— Jane Austen

“Elinor made no answer. Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits…

— Jane Austen

“In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all…

— Jane Austen