Jane Austin

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
-Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”
-Jane Austen, Persusasion

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
-Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Those who never complain are never pitied.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as it's remembrance gives you pleasure.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what i do not like.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“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!”
-Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
-Jane Austen, Love And Friendship

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
-Jane Austen

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”
-Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
-Jane Austen

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
-Jane Austen, Love And Friendship

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
-Jane Austen, Emma

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

-Jane Austen

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”

-Jane Austen

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”

-Jane Austen, Emma

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

-Jane Austen, Emma

“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.”

-Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

-Jane Austen

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

-Jane Austen, Emma