Quotes by Jane Austen

“I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circ...”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”

“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by ...”

“There are secrets in all families, you know.”

“So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.”

“Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.”

“I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.”

“I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.”

“Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution t...”

“No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which...”

“What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.”

“What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.”

“And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle and quiet—Nev...”

“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the...”

“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.”

“It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occ...”

“She was stronger alone…”

“Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle...”