1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

I love you. Most ardently.