Top 793 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Austen - Page 2

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Jane Austen

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Jane Austen

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Jane Austen

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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Every savage can dance.

Jane Austen

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Jane Austen

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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There are secrets in all families.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Jane Austen

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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Almost anything is possible with time

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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Jane Austen

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.

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Jane Austen

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

Jane Austen

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