1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

You shall not, for the sakeof one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.