Thinking Quotes by Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

— Jane Austen

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

— Jane Austen

“No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.”

— Jane Austen

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

— Jane Austen

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is…

— Jane Austen

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

— Jane Austen

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do,…

— Jane Austen

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

— Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very…

— Jane Austen

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will…

— Jane Austen

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

— 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

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in…

— Jane Austen

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,…

— Jane Austen

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.…

— Jane Austen

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great…

— Jane Austen

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by…

— Jane Austen

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider…

— Jane Austen

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given…

— Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the…

— Jane Austen

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor…

— Jane Austen

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,…

— Jane Austen

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope,…

— Jane Austen

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that…

— Jane Austen

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think…

— Jane Austen

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested…

— Jane Austen

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at…

— 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

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

— Jane Austen

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

— Jane Austen

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

— Jane Austen

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for…

— Jane Austen

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel,…

— Jane Austen