1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.