All Jane Austen Quotes
- Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… Absent
- I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. Afraid
- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… Awkwardness
- Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. Been
- A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. Book
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Destroyed
- I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. All
- Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given… All
- My good opinion once lost is lost forever. Forever
- Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that… Book
- Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not… Admiration
- Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Funny
- I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. Disposition
- It's such a happiness when good people get together. Get Together
- Success supposes endeavour. Endeavour
- She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. Begun
- I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much… Character
- There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison Been
- You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the… Affected
- I do not cough for my own amusement. Amusement