Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Jane Austen.
Top 25 Jane Austen Quotes and Sayings
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Angry people are not always wise.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.