People Quotes by Jane Austen

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

— Jane Austen

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Angry people are not always wise.

— Jane Austen

“I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.”

— Jane Austen

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

— Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

— Jane Austen

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

— Jane Austen

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

— Jane Austen

“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.”

— Jane Austen

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

— Jane Austen

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

— Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

— Jane Austen

“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.”

— Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should…

— Jane Austen

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point,…

— Jane Austen

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of…

— Jane Austen

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some…

— Jane Austen

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in…

— 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

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure…

— 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

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just…

— Jane Austen

“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of…

— 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

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in…

— Jane Austen

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To…

— Jane Austen

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying…

— Jane Austen

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this…

— Jane Austen

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.…

— Jane Austen

“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not…

— Jane Austen

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should…

— Jane Austen

“My fingers", said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They…

— Jane Austen

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to…

— Jane Austen

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

— Jane Austen

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

— Jane Austen

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

— Jane Austen

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

— Jane Austen

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

— Jane Austen

“But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.”

— Jane Austen

“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.”

— Jane Austen