All Jane Austen Quotes
- one day in the country is exactly like another. Country
- We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. Confined
- Know your own happiness. Funny
- I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know. Easy
- Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost,… Find
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in… All
- Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. Funny
- Let us have the luxury of silence. Inspirational
- Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? Better
- I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward… Altogether
- Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it. Aware
- What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? Intelligent
- Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would… Appear
- Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose… Afraid
- I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call… Anything Wrong
- Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our… Dear
- She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an… Civil
- If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… Affection
- Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody… All
- Sense will always have attractions for me. Attraction