JANE AUSTEN QUOTES II
English novelist (1775-1817)
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
Good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.
JANE AUSTEN
Persuasion
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
We are all fools in love.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
JANE AUSTEN
letter to Cassandra Austen, Oct. 26, 1813
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.
JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey