1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant ...

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.