1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she.'I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?' 'I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.