1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Our scars make us know that our past was for real