Jane Austen Quotes: Jane Austen is one of the reputable English writers whose names we hear frequently, both with her works and their cinematic adaptations, which caused great changes for women writers in the history of literature.
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‘”Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.” – Persuasion’
‘“Nothing is more deceitful…than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. -Emma’
‘“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.” -Emma’
‘“Those who do not complain are never pitied.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.” -Emma’
‘“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘“…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” – Persuasion’
‘“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”- Persuasion’
‘“Angry people are not always wise.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘“Without music, life would be a blank to me.” -Emma’
‘“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” – Pride and Prejudice” ‘
‘“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.” -Emma’
‘”What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.” -Emma’
‘”A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”If a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” -Emma’
‘”“There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit. No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving or it”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” -Emma’
‘”“Don’t imagine that nobody in this house can see or judge but yourself. Don’t act yourself, if you do not like it, but don’t expect to govern everybody else.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” -Mansfield Park’
‘“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“There is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. One seems too forlorn without them.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.” -Mansfield Park’
‘“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.” -Mansfield Park’
‘“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?” – Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.” -Mansfield Park’,
‘“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to play you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” -Mansfield Park’,
‘“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“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.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“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.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.” -Persuasion’,
‘“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” -Emma’,
‘“What are men to rocks and mountains?” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.” -Emma ‘
‘“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.” -Emma’
‘“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. -Emma’
‘“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” -Persuasion’
‘“Do anything rather than marry without affection.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison” -Persuasion ‘
‘“Do not give way to useless alarm…though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.” -Jane Austen’
‘”“The distance is nothing when one has motive.”” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” -Mansfield Park’
‘”“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” -Persuasion’
‘”Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.” -Persuasion’
‘”Beware how you give your heart.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”It is so delightful to have an evening now and then to oneself.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“When I fall in love, it will be forever.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.” -Persuasion’
‘“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.” – Persuasion’
‘“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.” -Emma’
‘”I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve” -Persuasion’
‘”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.” -Emma’
‘“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.” -Emma’
‘“Till this moment I never knew myself.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.” -Emma’
‘“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”“Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”” -Mansfield Park’
‘”How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.” – Persuasion’
‘”A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” -Mansfield Park’
‘Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. – Persuasion’
‘”Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” -Mansfield Park’
‘“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” -Emma’
‘”Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“Time will explain.” – Persuasion’
‘“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“It is not everyone,′ said Elinor, ‘who has your passion for dead leaves.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”” -Sense and Sensibility’
‘”Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” -Jane Austen’
‘”To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect” -Jane Austen’
‘”Success supposes endeavour.” -Jane Austen’
‘”To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” -Jane Austen’
‘”If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Almost anything is possible with time” -Jane Austen’
‘”There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” -Jane Austen’
‘”My heart is, and always will be, yours.” -Jane Austen’
‘“People in books are good and noble and unselfish, and people aren’t that way … and I feel, well… hornswoggled sometimes. By Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott. Why do writers make things sugary when life isn’t that way?” -A Northern Light’
‘”One word from you shall silence me forever.” -Jane Austen’
‘”I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.” -Jane Austen’
‘”“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”” -Pride and Prejudice’
‘”Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.” -Jane Austen ‘
‘”Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.” -Jane Austen’,
‘”If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.” -Northanger Abbey’
‘”Our scars make us know that our past was for real” -Jane Austen’
‘“When people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.” -Mansfield Park’
‘”Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.” -Jane Austen’
‘“I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.” -Mansfield Park’
‘”None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.” -Jane Austen’
‘”To love is to burn, to be on fire.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” -Jane Austen’
‘”my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.” -Jane Austen’
‘”A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” -Jane Austen’
‘”The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.” -Jane Austen’
‘”If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” -Jane Austen’
‘”The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” -Jane Austen’
‘”Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.” -Jane Austen’,
