1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

I do not cough for my own amusement," replied Kitty fretfully.

Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers. Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then; how mournfully superior in reality and substance.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.