1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

I think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could not he keep on quarrelling with you, as his father did before him?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.