Jane austen quotes

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

Jane austen

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man. But this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane austen

We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane austen

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane austen

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane austen

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane austen

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane austen

Everybody likes to go their own way, to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane austen

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

Jane austen

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Jane austen

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane austen

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane austen

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Jane austen

I pay very little regard. To what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane austen

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquility. By the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane austen

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane austen

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane austen

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

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane austen

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

Jane austen

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

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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.

Jane austen

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.

Jane austen

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane austen

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

Jane austen

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane austen

We all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions.

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Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always disagreeable.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Jane austen

It will,
I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane austen

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Jane austen