75 Quotes About Austen

If I truly loved a man, his fortune or lack of one would not make any difference to me. In any case, we cannot always choose with whom we fall in love. When it happens, it is not something we can just dismiss on a whim or tell to go away. There is no rhyme nor reason in matters of the heart.

Time is but a shadow; Too slow, too swift, But for those who love, Time does not exist.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only he wasn't real. Like Austen's characters, he was fiction. Mr. Darcy broke my heart.

Like in those Bunny Austen books you read where rabbits live in great parks with manor hutches?

She knew she was smart. She had, after all, read Pride and Prejudice. Twice.