1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Time, time will heal the wound.

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.