1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

The less said the better.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.