1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.