The Best Jane Austen Quotes - Famous Authors Quotations
Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. See her great quotes on life and love.
1. It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
– Jane Austen
2. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
– Jane Austen
3. One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
– Jane Austen
4. Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
– Jane Austen
5. The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
– Jane Austen
6. 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.
– Jane Austen
7. 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?
– Jane Austen
8. Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
– Jane Austen
9. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
– Jane Austen
10. Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
– Jane Austen
11. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
– Jane Austen
12. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen
13. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
– Jane Austen
14. There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
– Jane Austen
15. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
– Jane Austen
16. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
– Jane Austen
17. Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
– Jane Austen
18. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
– Jane Austen
19. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen
20. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
– Jane Austen
21. I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
– Jane Austen
22. 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 inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
– Jane Austen
23. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
– Jane Austen
24. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
– Jane Austen
25. Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
– Jane Austen
26. Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
– Jane Austen
27. 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.
– Jane Austen
28. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
– Jane Austen
29. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
– Jane Austen
30. One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen
31. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen
32. Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
– Jane Austen
33. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
– Jane Austen
34. There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart.
– Jane Austen
35. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
– Jane Austen
36. To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
– Jane Austen
37. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
– Jane Austen
38. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
– Jane Austen
39. We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
– Jane Austen
40. What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
– Jane Austen
41. Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
–Jane Austen
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