1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship.

Almost anything is possible with time.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance...