Jane Austen Quotes (569 Quotes)

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

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

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.

You have delighted us long enough.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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

Run, my Brothers, to the Pier gate!