1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

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.

It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.

We are all fools in love.

Evil to some is always good to others.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.