1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what may tranquillise every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.