1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

Success supposes endeavour.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.