1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

...faultless in spite of all her faults...

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

I should infinitely prefer a book...

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.