1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. – Mr Darcy.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man’s being in love if he chose it.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. – Mr. Knightley.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.