Jane Austen quotes
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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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.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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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.
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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.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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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!
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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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.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
