1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

We are all fools in love

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.