Quotes by Jane Austen

About Jane Austen:

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--...

Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Jane Austen

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Jane Austen

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Jane Austen

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.

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No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

Jane Austen

Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.

Jane Austen

Nije isključeno da čovek može živeti i bez igranja. Poznati su i slučajevi u kojima su mladići i devojke proveli mnoge mesece, a da ni na kakvom balu nisu bili, štaviše, ni duh ni telo nisu im zbog toga pretrpeli nikakvu štetu; ali kada se j...

Jane Austen

I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

No," said he, smiling, "that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.

Jane Austen

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Jane Austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

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Author Bio

  • NameJane Austen
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist
  • BornDecember 16, 1775
  • DiedJuly 18, 1817
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer