1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

You know that men can love forever. Please belive that my love could never end.

If someone insists their feet are always firmly on the ground, how else can you discover if their head is sometimes in the clouds?

In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were these: annoyance with herself for being incapable of governing her own actions, satisfaction that Sidney had won this very minor victory over her, amusement, embarrassment - an odd something between perturbation and pleasure - and above all else, a flutter of joyful spirits which made her feel she had strayed somehow into a most unfamiliar world.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader.

Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.

I do not pretend people in general are without imperfections.

He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.

Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me irrita, y todos los días confirmo mi creencia en la inconstancia del carácter humano y en la poca que me inspiran las apariencias de mérito o talento.