1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

An annuity is a very serious business.