Jane Austen Quotes

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.