The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Dancing
- Love
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IXIn context
- Love
- Poetry
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
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
“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
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Emma (1815), Volume III, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Love
Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Friendship
- Love
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
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
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIn context
- Character
- Love
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Love
- Men

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