1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.