The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Thinking
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Happiness
- Money
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XLIIIn context
- Wisdom
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XLVIIIIn context
- Writing
Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 5In context
- Reading
- Writing
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Clever Jabs
- Reading
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Comedy
- Politics
“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Debate
“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Thinking
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIIn context
- Love
But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Love
- Pride
“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Character
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience⁠—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XIXIn context
- Happiness
- Hope
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIIn context
- Comedy
- Health
It was a delightful visit;⁠—perfect, in being much too short.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Comedy

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