amazing quotes by jane austen
Amazing Quotes by Jane Austen
No library is ever complete without one of Jane Austen's books. Besides the stories, setting, and characters, what made her work so distinct and eternal were their dialogs. Following are some famous quotes by Jane Austen.
Did You Know?
Jane Austen had finished the original versions of Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility, by the age of 23.Love and Marriage Quotes
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
― Pride And Prejudice
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
― Emma
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
― Sense and Sensibility
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
― Pride and Prejudice
Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.
― Mansfield Park
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
― Pride and Prejudice
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
― Pride and Prejudice
Life Quotes
Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.
― Sense and Sensibility
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
― Emma
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
― Emma
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
― Emma
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
― Northanger Abbey
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
― Mansfield Park
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
― Persuasion
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
― Emma
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
― Mansfield Park
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
― Mansfield Park
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
― Mansfield Park
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
― Mansfield Park
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
― Pride and Prejudice
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
― Mansfield Park
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
― Emma
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
― Pride and Prejudice
Personal Quotes
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
I will only add, God bless you.