The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIn context
- Morality
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter XIIIn context
- Happiness
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Emma (1815), Volume III, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Love
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Pride
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIIn context
- Thinking
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter IVIn context
- Age
- Youth
Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Friendship
- Love
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Women
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Character
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIn context
- Experience
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
- Women
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
- Money
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter VIIIn context
- Character
- Forgiveness

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