1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others

The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough;

Too soon did she find herself at the drawing room door. And after pausing a moment for what she knew would not come, for a courage which the outside of no door had ever supplied to her, she turned the lock in desperation and the lights of the drawing room and all the collected family were before her.

As a daughter she hoped she was not without heart.

This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.

The bells rang, and everybody smiled.

You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.