Jane Austen Quotes

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477 Quotes of Timeless Wisdom, Love, Friendship, Society, and Human Nature

“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.”

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.”

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

“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.”

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

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid”

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

“Know your own happiness.”

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“We do not suffer by accident.”

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

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”

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

“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”

“Beware how you give your heart.”

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

“Every savage can dance.”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“Badly done, Emma!”

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

“The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.”

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”