The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

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

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Beauty
- Women
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
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIXIn context
- Truth & Lies
- Women
“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
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
- Women
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
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
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all⁠—it is very tiresome
Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- History
- Women

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