Quotes by Jane Austen

“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea ...”

“the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the...”

“The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.”

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“She wished such words unsaid with all her heart”

“…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.”

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”

“Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.”

“His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.”

“A loss may be sometimes a gain.”

“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.”

“Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For ...”

“Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does n...”

“Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?”

“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her con...”

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

“They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.”

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of...”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequal...”