Jane Austen Quotes

“I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.”

“Sense will always have attractions for me.”

“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 having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.”

“Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.”

“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”

“Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

“But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing”

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

“Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

“Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?”

“it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship”

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”

“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.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

“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.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”