1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again.

Everybody’s heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Heaven forbid! – That would be the greatest misfortune of all! – To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! – Do not wish me such an evil.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know.