--- title: "8 Dear Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "8 Dear quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Dear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/jane-austen-39_book_far-be-it-from-me-my-dear-sister-to-depr_105501.jpg" --- > [Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/far-be-it-from-me-my-dear-sister-to-depreciate-such-pleasures-they/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/jane-austen-39_book_far-be-it-from-me-my-dear-sister-to-depr_105501.jpg) > [What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/what-wild-imaginations-one-forms-where-dear-self-is-concerned-how/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8a/jane-austen-39_concerned_what-wild-imaginations-one-forms-where-d_444250.jpg) > [My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/my-dear-mr-bennet-said-his-lady-to-him-one-day-have-you-heard-that/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c2/jane-austen-39_dear_my-dear-mr-bennet-said-his-lady-to-him-o_493504.jpg) > [Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/dear-diary-today-i-tried-not-to-think-about-mr-knightly-i-tried-not/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26a/jane-austen-39_bed_dear-diary-today-i-tried-not-to-think-ab_540894.jpg) > [Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/oh-single-my-dear-to-be-sure-a-single-man-of-large-fortune-four-or/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62e/jane-austen-39_dear_oh-single-my-dear-to-be-sure-a-single-ma_1198709.jpg) > [Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/young-ladies-should-take-care-of-themselves-young-ladies-are-delicate/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/jane-austen-39_care_young-ladies-should-take-care-of-themsel_2408535.jpg) > [Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/mr-bennet-how-can-you-abuse-your-own-children-in-such-a-way-you-take/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfd/jane-austen-39_abuse_mr-bennet-how-can-you-abuse-your-own-chi_2915814.jpg) > [Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/well-my-dear-said-mr-bennet-when-elizabeth-had-read-the-note-aloud-if/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d8/jane-austen-39_comfort_well-my-dear-said-mr-bennet-when-elizabe_3094857.jpg) ## Other authors on Dear ## 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/dear/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "8 Dear Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. 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