Jane Austen Quotes

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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

It was in this reign that Joan of Arc reigned and made such a row among the English.

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

"I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars

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

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Of various admirals I could tell you a great deal: of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. But, in general, I can assure you that they are all passed over, and all very ill used. Certainly, my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat.