1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . .

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.