1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it’s fragrance on the desert air.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship! – How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! – How much of good or evil must be done by him!

A Woman never looks better than on horseback.

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived – my breakfast supplied only two ideas – that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.