Jane Austen Quotes

What strange creatures brothers are!

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

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

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; — it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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

"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.