1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

She hated herself more than she could express.

There is nothing people are so often deceived in, as the state of their own affections.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.