The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice (1813)In context
- Marriage
- Money
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Emma (1815)In context
- Life & Death
- 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
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
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 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
“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
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
“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IVIn context
- Marriage

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