1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

If it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

You must have had more snow at Goldmersham than we had here; on Wednesday morning there was a thin covering of it over the fields and roofs of the houses, but I do not think there was any left the next day. Everybody used to Southampton says that snow never lies more than twenty-four hours near it, and, from what we have observed ourselves, it is very true.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Vice leads to difficulty, virtue to reward. Bad characters come to bad ends.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment

She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, not humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed