Jane Austen Quotes
19 quotes from Jane Austen — English novelist whose works — Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma — became some of the most beloved in th….
“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
“Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
“I have lost a treasure, such a Sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed, — She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, & it is as if I had lost a part of myself.”
“I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London.”
“She flatters and cajoles you with the promise of intimacy and then, at the last moment, there is the same blankness. Are those Jane Austen's eyes or is it a glass, a mirror, a silver spoon held up in the sun?”
“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without Affection.”
“I am never too busy to think of S & S. I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.”
“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”
“There are such beings in the World perhaps, one in a Thousand, as the Creature You and I should think perfection, Where Grace & Spirit are united to Worth, where the Manners are equal to the Heart & Understanding, but such a person may not come in your way.”
“I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.”
