1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.

In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony or sundered hearts destroyed by wretchedness.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.''As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Your mother may not speak to you if you do not marry him, but I will not speak to you if you do.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

Opće je poznata istina da samcu u posjedu velikog bogatstva zacjelo treba supruga.

You want nothing, but patience or give it a more fascinating name. Call it hope.

for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects that can really be in common between two rational creatures, yet for the lovers is different. Between them no subject is finished; no communication is ever made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

Aquella persona, caballero o señora, que no sabe apreciar el valor de una buena novela es completamente necia.