Jane Austen Quotes

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

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.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.