1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Everything nourishes what is strong already

I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.