--- title: "15 Letter Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "15 Letter quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Letter sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jane-austen-39_letter_letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura-28_2846407.jpg" --- > [“LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jane-austen-39_letter_letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura-28_2846407.jpg) > [“May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/may-we-take-my-uncle-s-letter-to-read-to-her-take-whatever-you-like/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/jane-austen-39_letter_may-we-take-my-uncle-s-letter-to-read-to_2356732.jpg) > [You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/you-deserve-a-longer-letter-than-this-but-it-is-my-unhappy-fate/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/jane-austen-39_deserve_you-deserve-a-longer-letter-than-this-bu_1589371.jpg) > [“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/letters-are-no-matter-of-indifference-they-are-generally-a-very/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f96/jane-austen-39_letter_letters-are-no-matter-of-indifference-th_2421983.jpg) > [Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-a-letter-was-not-to-be-soon-recovered-from-every-moment-rather/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/jane-austen-39_agitation_such-a-letter-was-not-to-be-soon-recover_765001.jpg) > [“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/a-woman-is-not-to-marry-a-man-merely-because-she-is-asked-or-because/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c7/jane-austen-39_letter_a-woman-is-not-to-marry-a-man-merely-bec_2321964.jpg) > [“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/expect-a-most-agreeable-letter-for-not-being-overburdened-with/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/631/jane-austen-39_agreeable_expect-a-most-agreeable-letter-for-not-b_107374.jpg) > [“I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-suppose-you-have-heard-of-the-handsome-letter-mr-frank-churchill/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/jane-austen-39_letter_i-suppose-you-have-heard-of-the-handsome_2829813.jpg) > [“As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/as-far-as-i-have-had-opportunity-of-judging-it-appears-to-me-that-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/jane-austen-39_writing_as-far-as-i-have-had-opportunity-of-judg_1140424.jpg) > [“I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-have-just-received-your-letter-and-shall-devote-this-whole-morning/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jane-austen-39_letter_i-have-just-received-your-letter-and-sha_62534.jpg) > [Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/expect-a-most-agreeable-letter-for-not-being-overburdened-with-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/jane-austen-39_checks_expect-a-most-agreeable-letter-for-not-b_859304.jpg) > [“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/this-was-a-letter-to-be-run-through-eagerly-to-be-read-deliberately/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c7/jane-austen-39_books_this-was-a-letter-to-be-run-through-eage_195885.jpg) > [“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-think-no-more-of-the-letter-the-feelings-of-the-person-who-wrote/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/jane-austen-39_nostalgia_but-think-no-more-of-the-letter-the-feel_1674539.jpg) > [“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-is-blinded-and-nothing-will-open-his-eyes-nothing-can-after-having/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/jane-austen-39_fanny-price_he-is-blinded-and-nothing-will-open-his_608827.jpg) > [“The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-contents-of-this-letter-threw-elizabeth-into-a-flutter-of-spirits/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a0/jane-austen-39_happiness_the-contents-of-this-letter-threw-elizab_70865.jpg) ## Other authors on Letter ## 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/letter/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "15 Letter Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Austen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jane-austen-39_letter_letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura-28_2846407.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jane-austen-39_letter_letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura-28_2846407.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jane-austen-39_letter_letter-the-first-from-isabel-to-laura-28_2846407.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA” — Jane Austen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? 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The vague and unsettled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable and at the same time dreaded to be just from the pain of obligation were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true He had followed them purposely to town he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise and where he was reduced to meet frequently meet reason with persuade and finally bribe the man whom he always most wished to avoid and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce. He had done all this for a girl whom he could neither regard nor esteem. Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. But it was a hope shortly checked by other considerations and she soon felt that even her vanity was insufficient when required to depend on his affection for her—for a woman who had already refused him—as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham. Brother-in-law of Wickham Every kind of pride must revolt from the connection. He had to be sure done much. She was ashamed to think how much. But he had given a reason for his interference which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief. It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong he had liberality and he had the means of exercising it and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement she could perhaps believe that remaining partiality for her might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned. It was painful exceedingly painful to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. They owed the restoration of Lydia her character every thing to him. Oh how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour he had been able to get the better of himself. She read over her aunt's commendation of him again and again. It was hardly enough but it pleased her. 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