1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.