1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

It will be a bitter pill to her, that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor, and then be swallowed and forgotten

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.