1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other’s ultimate comfort.

One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;.

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.