A collection of quotes collected from the books of Jane Austen.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen
Source: Mansfield Park
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.Jane Austen
Angry people are not always wise.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.Jane Austen
Source: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) - Letters of Jane Austen
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.Jane Austen
Source: Persuasion
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.Jane Austen
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.Jane Austen
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.Jane Austen
Source: Emma
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.Jane Austen
Source: Pride And Prejudice
Quoted: Mr. Darcy
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.Jane Austen
Source: Emma (1815)
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.Jane Austen
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.Jane Austen
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.Jane Austen
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!Jane Austen
Source: Sense and Sensibility
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.Jane Austen
Source: Mansfield Park (1814)
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
What are young men to rocks and mountains?Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Quoted: Elizabeth
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.Jane Austen
Without music, life would be a blank to me.Jane Austen
Source: Emma
