1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity.

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

But angry people are not always wise.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge.

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.