Jane Austen Quotes

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen

"In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry."
-Jane Austen

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
-Jane Austen in Relaxation quotes.

"I pay very little regard...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."
-Jane Austen in Love quotes.

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
-Jane Austen in Beauty quotes.

"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
-Jane Austen

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
-Jane Austen in Love quotes.

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
-Jane Austen

"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other."
-Jane Austen

"Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
-Jane Austen

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."
-Jane Austen in Love quotes.

"When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort."
-Jane Austen

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
-Jane Austen

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
-Jane Austen in Religion quotes.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
-Jane Austen

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
-Jane Austen in Money quotes.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."
-Jane Austen

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

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
-Jane Austen

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
-Jane Austen

"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill."
-Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them."
-Jane Austen

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
-Jane Austen in Friendship quotes.

"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."
-Jane Austen in Nature quotes.

"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

"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
-Jane Austen

"A woman should never be trusted with money."
-Jane Austen