1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Какво общо могат да имат величието или богатството с щастието? Парите радват, само ако нищо друго не може да те направи щастлив.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love