1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

She is loveliness itself.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Let us have the luxury of silence.