1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?