All Jane Austen Quotes
- I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Circulating
- The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her… Add
- Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing… Air
- What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? Heart
- Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation. Chief
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face… Agreeing
- We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to. Condemn
- It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Any
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did… All
- There are secrets in all families. All
- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. Excellent
- How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! Changes
- Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than… Distressing
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for… Activity
- I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every… All
- I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. Born
- Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed… Affection
- There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. Agreeable
- Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like… Cheerful
- The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour. Bit