1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Know your own happiness.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

I should not mind anything at all.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.