Jane Austen Quotes

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

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

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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

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

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.