Jane Austen Quotes
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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I can always live by my pen.
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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.