Jane Austen Quotes

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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?

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

I am excessively diverted.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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