Jane Austen Quotes

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

We do not suffer by accident.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

She was stronger alone…

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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

...that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea, because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted... He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him 'poor Richard,' been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.