The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Marriage
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Love
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
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
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
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Character
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter VIIIn context
- Character
- Forgiveness
“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
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIn context
- Character
- Love

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