1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed!

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.