Jane Austen Quotes

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  • Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

    Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100
  • But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

    Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.250, Full Moon Publications
  • Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

    Jane Austen (2010). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.280, Bethany House
  • Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

  • But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

    Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.766, Wordsworth Editions
  • The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

    Doe  
  • Sense will always have attractions for me.

    Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.52, Ignatius Press
  • Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  • Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80
  • The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

    Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.87
  • Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

    Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press
  • there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

    1814 Mansfield Park, ch.5.
  • We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

    1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.
  • I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  • Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

    Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

    Heart  
    "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.
  • A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

    Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

    Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.53, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

    Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon (2012). “Emma: An Annotated Edition”, p.322, Harvard University Press
  • An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

    Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.30, Xist Publishing
  • To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

    "Fictional character: The Voice of Jane Austen". "Northanger Abbey", www.imdb.com. March 25, 2007.
  • Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

    Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.21, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

    Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.184, W. W. Norton & Company
  • He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

    "Complete Works of Jane Austen".
  • but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

    Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen
  • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

    1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.
  • A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

    Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions
  • We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.81
  • Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

    Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House
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