1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

What a revolution in her ideas!

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

We do not suffer by accident.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

What harm could there be in returning smile for smile and in allowing the most charming man she had ever met to conquer the few remaining corners of her heart where common sense retained a last fleeting hold?

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.