Jane Austen Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

I should infinitely prefer a book...

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...

Know your own happiness.