1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachment. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with... It would be too hard indeed (with a faltering voice) if woman's feelings were to be added to all this!

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.