1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.