1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.

You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and false steps of many.

Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.

I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so well able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. - Mr Bennet

Hay algo tan dulce en los prejuicios de una mente joven, que uno llega a sentir pena de ver cómo ceden y les abren paso a opiniones más comunes.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it - unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.