1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.