All Jane Austen Quotes
- We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be… All
- It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations… Accepted
- her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. Give
- It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with… Acquainted
- At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are… Address
- Obstinate, headstrong girl! Girl
- My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my… All
- Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. Every Moment
- Without music, life would be a blank to me. Blank
- You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the… Angel
- A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. Best
- Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Any
- If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. Been
- Too many cooks spoil the broth Broth
- Everything nourishes what is strong already Everything Nourishes
- Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. Agree
- You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Best
- There seemed a gulf impassable between them. Funny
- Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… Betide
- ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself Expectation