JANE AUSTEN QUOTES II

English novelist (1775-1817)

Jane Austen quote

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice


I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

JANE AUSTEN

Persuasion


Good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

Tags: reputation


There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

Tags: laziness


To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

Tags: relaxation


You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

JANE AUSTEN

Persuasion


Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park


Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

Tags: truth


If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma


How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

JANE AUSTEN

Persuasion


I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice


We are all fools in love.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

Tags: fools


People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

JANE AUSTEN

Sense and Sensibility

Tags: money


I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

JANE AUSTEN

letter to Cassandra Austen, Oct. 26, 1813

Tags: writing


It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

JANE AUSTEN

Sense and Sensibility


Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

Tags: misery


A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

Tags: women


It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice


The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey


To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey

Tags: beauty