1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?

My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.