The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

77 quotes, most often on Love, Comedy and Marriage.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
- Love
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Courage
“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.”
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Love
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Men
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Marriage
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume III, Chapter XIVIn context
- Pride
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume III, Chapter XVIn context
- Comedy
- Laughter
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter IIIn context
- Comedy
- Money
“I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Morality
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Debate
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Intelligence
- Pride
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
- Women
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIn context
- Character
- Charity

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