1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

If I mistake not, a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion.

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ashe Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.