--- title: "4 Delighted Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "4 Delighted quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Delighted sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/jane-austen-39_enough_you-have-delighted-us-long-enough-143647_1436473.jpg" --- > [You have delighted us long enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/you-have-delighted-us-long-enough/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/jane-austen-39_enough_you-have-delighted-us-long-enough-143647_1436473.jpg) > [That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/that-will-do-extremely-well-child-you-have-delighted-us-long-enough/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/jane-austen-39_children_that-will-do-extremely-well-child-you-ha_2198807.jpg) > [Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/oh-i-am-delighted-with-the-book-i-should-like-to-spend-my-whole-life/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/jane-austen-39_book_oh-i-am-delighted-with-the-book-i-should_2753964.jpg) > [Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-elliot-s-character-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca1/jane-austen-39_appearance_vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of_3171950.jpg) ## 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/delighted/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "4 Delighted Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You have delighted us long enough.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Austen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/you-have-delighted-us-long-enough/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/jane-austen-39_enough_you-have-delighted-us-long-enough-143647_1436473.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/jane-austen-39_enough_you-have-delighted-us-long-enough-143647_1436473.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/jane-austen-39_enough_you-have-delighted-us-long-enough-143647_1436473.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You have delighted us long enough.” — Jane Austen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That will do extremely well, child. 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