1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

I am all astonishment.

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars