All Jane Austen Quotes
- I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. Everybody
- I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Action
- My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? All
- Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Always Folly
- Time did not compose her. Compose
- Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. Attachment
- He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of… All
- Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. Better
- Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. Degrees
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for… Agony
- I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. Bad
- We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in… All
- A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. Affection
- The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself,… Care
- I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… Creature
- Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I… Book
- My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire. All
- Vanity, not love, has been my folly. Been
- …dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [...] By you, I was properly humbled. Dearest
- Arguments are too much like disputes. Argument