Jane Austen

We are all fools in love

— Jane Austen

to hope was to expect

— Jane Austen

You have delighted us long enough.

— Jane Austen

Angry people are not always wise.

— Jane Austen

Time, time will heal the wound.

— Jane Austen

She is loveliness itself.

— Jane Austen

I can always live by my pen.

— Jane Austen

“What a revolution in her ideas!”

— Jane Austen

“To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go.”

— Jane Austen

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

— Jane Austen

“Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!”

— Jane Austen

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

— Jane Austen

“The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

— Jane Austen

“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.”

— Jane Austen

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

— Jane Austen

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship”

— Jane Austen

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

— Jane Austen

“I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

— Jane Austen

“If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr.…

— Jane Austen

“It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve,…

— Jane Austen

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and…

— Jane Austen

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I…

— Jane Austen

“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who…

— Jane Austen

“exactly what Darcy had hoped to see. They were able to love each other even as well as they intended. Georgiana had…

— Jane Austen

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of…

— Jane Austen

“One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.…

— Jane Austen

“Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of…

— Jane Austen

“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It…

— Jane Austen

“Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger…

— Jane Austen

“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl…

— Jane Austen

“What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?" cried he. "Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that…

— Jane Austen

“I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know…

— Jane Austen

“I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable…

— Jane Austen

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in…

— Jane Austen