--- title: "8 Charming Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "8 Charming quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Charming sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/jane-austen-39_appearance_lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstan_174876.jpg" --- > [Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstanding-your-forbidding-squint/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/jane-austen-39_appearance_lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstan_174876.jpg) > [“My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/my-being-charming-is-not-quite-enough-to-induce-me-to-marry-i-must/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/jane-austen-39_quote_my-being-charming-is-not-quite-enough-to_913844.jpg) > [“It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-requires-uncommon-steadiness-of-reason-to-resist-the-attraction-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/jane-austen-39_quote_it-requires-uncommon-steadiness-of-reaso_969097.jpg) > [I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-begin-already-to-weigh-my-words-and-sentences-more-than-i-did-and/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/jane-austen-39_charming_i-begin-already-to-weigh-my-words-and-se_1538732.jpg) > [Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/do-you-dance-mr-darcy-darcy-not-if-i-can-help-it-sir-william-what-a/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/jane-austen-39_advantage_do-you-dance-mr-darcy-darcy-not-if-i-can_1610204.jpg) > [“The most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-most-charming-young-man-in-the-world-is-instantly-before-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/jane-austen-39_young-man_the-most-charming-young-man-in-the-world_2005942.jpg) > [Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/where-youth-and-diffidence-are-united-it-requires-uncommon-steadiness/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/jane-austen-39_attraction_where-youth-and-diffidence-are-united-it_2705964.jpg) > [“She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-has-many-rare-and-charming-qualities-but-sobriety-is-not-one-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/jane-austen-39_charming_she-has-many-rare-and-charming-qualities_3004255.jpg) ## Other authors on Charming ## More by Jane Austen > [Let us have the luxury of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/let-us-have-the-luxury-of-silence/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/how-earnestly-did-she-then-wish-that-her-former-opinions-had-been/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-very-well-worth-while-to-be-tormented-for-two-or-three-years-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [ “Everybody is taken in at some period or another. \[...\] In marriage especially. \[...\] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or-another-in-marriage/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-knew-that-what-marianne-and-her-mother-conjectured-one-moment/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/for-i-look-upon-the-frasers-to-be-about-as-unhappy-as-most-other/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-raises-my-spleen-more-than-any-thing-to-have-the-pretence-of-being/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-spirits-wanted-the-solitude-and-silence-which-only-numbers-could/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-in-such-cases-as-these-a-good-memory-is-unpardonable/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-pleasantness-of-an-employment-does-not-always-evince-its-propriety/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-squeamish-youths-as-cannot-bear-to-be-connected-with-a-little/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-must-tell-you-what-you-will-not-ask-though-i-may-wish-it-unsaid-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-seemed-quite-astonished-at-not-receiving-a-direct/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-had-suffered-and-he-had-learnt-to-think-two-advantages-that-he-had/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-eliot-s-character/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charming/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "8 Charming Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Austen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstanding-your-forbidding-squint/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/jane-austen-39_appearance_lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstan_174876.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/jane-austen-39_appearance_lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstan_174876.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/jane-austen-39_appearance_lovely-too-charming-fair-one-notwithstan_174876.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling…” — Jane Austen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. 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