Austen Quotes
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Let those who want to be happy ... be firm
— Jane Austen
We may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.
— Margaret C. Sullivan
I will only add, God bless you.
— Jane Austen
They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.
— Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
— Jane Austen
Care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which
— Jane Austen
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
— Jane Austen
Had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!
— Jane Austen
Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.
— Jane Austen
It is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us
— Jane Austen
If a book is well written, I also find it too short.
— Jane Austen
Money is the best recipe for happiness.
— Jane Austen
It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
— Jane Austen
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
He must tell his own story.''But he will tell only half of it.'
'A quarter would be enough. — Jane Austen
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
— Jane Austen
keep your breath to cool your porridge
— Jane Austen
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
— Jane Austen
How can you contrive to write so even?
— Jane Austen
Her not objecting, does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself sense or feeling. — Jane Austen
Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you can you really be in love with James? — Jane Austen
The less said the better.
— Jane Austen
I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.
— Jane Austen
Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?
— Jane Austen
Young people do not like to be always thwarted.
— Jane Austen
My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet
— Jane Austen
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
— Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
— Jane Austen
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
— Jane Austen
The sooner every party breaks up, the better.
— Jane Austen
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
— Jane Austen
Prepare yourself for something dreadful.
— Jane Austen
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.
— Jane Austen
There are secrets in all families.
— Jane Austen
There seemed a gulf impassable between them.
— Jane Austen
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. - Jane Austen
— Alexandra Potter
He must love somebody.
— Jane Austen
Picture of perfection make me sick and wicked.
— Jane Austen
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
— Jane Austen
Too many cooks spoil the broth
— Jane Austen
A Woman never looks better than on horseback
— Jane Austen
I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food.
— Jane Austen
Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
— Austen Chamberlain
Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.
— Jane Austen
Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha)
— Helen Fielding
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.
— Jane Austen
General uncivility is the very essence of love.
— Jane Austen
Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.
— Jane Austen
Move over, Emma Woodhouse. You have met your match.
— Diane Moody
With a book he was regardless of time.
— Jane Austen
Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?
— Jane Austen
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
— Jane Austen
That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)
— Devoney Looser
I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.
— Laurie Viera Rigler
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
— Jane Austen
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
— Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
— Jane Austen
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
— Jane Austen
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
— Becky Watson
Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.
— Jane Austen
I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
— Jane Austen
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
— Dodie Smith
