Jane Austen Quotes

“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

“I should infinitely prefer a book.”

“It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.”

“I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.”

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

“I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

“I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.”

“Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”

“No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.”

“Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.”

“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”

“Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.”

“He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.”

“I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”

“it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.”

“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”