--- title: "8 Heroines Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "8 Heroines quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Heroines sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/jane-austen-39_going_i-am-going-to-take-a-heroine-whom-no-one_37352.jpg" --- > [I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-am-going-to-take-a-heroine-whom-no-one-but-myself-will-much-like/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/jane-austen-39_going_i-am-going-to-take-a-heroine-whom-no-one_37352.jpg) > [No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-infancy-would-have/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/jane-austen-39_born_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_283329.jpg) > [And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/and-now-i-may-dismiss-my-heroine-to-the-sleepless-couch-which-is-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/jane-austen-39_couches_and-now-i-may-dismiss-my-heroine-to-the_344042.jpg) > [But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-when-a-young-lady-is-to-be-a-heroine-the-perverseness-of-forty/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c57/jane-austen-39_family_but-when-a-young-lady-is-to-be-a-heroine_890980.jpg) > [If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/if-the-heroine-of-one-novel-be-not-patronized-by-the-heroine-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/jane-austen-39_heroines_if-the-heroine-of-one-novel-be-not-patro_2010438.jpg) > [I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-will-not-adopt-that-ungenerous-and-impolitic-custom-so-common-with/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c4/jane-austen-39_books_i-will-not-adopt-that-ungenerous-and-imp_2097034.jpg) > [“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-read-all-such-works-as-heroines-must-read-to-supply-their/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/jane-austen-39_books_she-read-all-such-works-as-heroines-must_2547691.jpg) > [Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/every-young-lady-may-feel-for-my-heroine-in-this-critical-moment-for-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f3/jane-austen-39_agitation_every-young-lady-may-feel-for-my-heroine_3098915.jpg) ## Other authors on Heroines - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroines/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sarah-maclean-83244.jpg) Sarah MacLean 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroines/sarah-maclean/) ## 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/heroines/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "8 Heroines Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": 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