JANE AUSTEN QUOTES
English novelist (1775-1817)
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
Northanger Abbey
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
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
Pride and Prejudice
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
Time will explain.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
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
Pride and Prejudice
Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN
letter, Sep. 18, 1796
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
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
Sense and Sensibility
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
Pride and Prejudice
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice