May Quotes by Jane Austen

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

— Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

— Jane Austen

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

— Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

— Jane Austen

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

— Jane Austen

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

— Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

— Jane Austen

Teach us… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

— Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family…

— Jane Austen

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

— Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental…

— Jane Austen

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I…

— Jane Austen

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to…

— Jane Austen

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

— Jane Austen

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe…

— Jane Austen

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its…

— Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be…

— Jane Austen

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may.…

— Jane Austen

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,…

— Jane Austen

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs…

— Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed…

— Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they…

— Jane Austen

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another…

— Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels…

— Jane Austen

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very…

— Jane Austen

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its…

— Jane Austen

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…

— Jane Austen

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There…

— Jane Austen

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,…

— Jane Austen

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think…

— Jane Austen

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if…

— Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

— Jane Austen

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

— Jane Austen

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

— Jane Austen

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

— Jane Austen

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

— Jane Austen

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be…

— Jane Austen

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other…

— Jane Austen

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

— Jane Austen

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied…

— Jane Austen