All Jane Austen Quotes
- 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
- Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint… Amply
- The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think… Age
- An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room,… Best
- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality… Appeared
- All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. All
- I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… Accidentally
- You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in… Admit
- You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little… All
- Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. England
- It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than… Acceptance