Jane Austen Quotes


You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. - Jane Austen


You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. - Jane Austen


You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. - Jane Austen


You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen


You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers. - Jane Austen


Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. - Jane Austen


With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. - Jane Austen


Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. - Jane Austen


Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. - Jane Austen


Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? - Jane Austen


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