1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure