Jane Austen quotes

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen



A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen


Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen



Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen


It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen


In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen


Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen



Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Jane Austen


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


How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen


A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen


Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen


One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen


One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen


An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen


I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen


If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen


Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen


We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen



Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen


I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen


Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen


What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen


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


One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen